Christopher Jason Bell has amassed an impressive filmography of shorts and features over the last 15 years, across which we can trace three key…
No festival season rests complete without at least one recent opus by Filipino director Lav Diaz receiving due consideration, and Venice 2024 ensured this…
Any movie that features a theater critic as a main character invites more intentional criticism from even lay viewers through the mere recognition that…
Göran Olsson’s Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a remarkable documentary, if not purely for its access to decades worth of newsreels, interviews,…
If, as the film’s logline suggests, we are to read the humble oyster as a “queer icon of New York City’s unlikely survival story,”…
Clowning on Juggalos (see what I did there?) can sometimes feel like punching down. Their intense fandom, centered around the Detroit-based horror-rap group Insane…
When HBO greenlit The Sopranos in 1997, nobody could have possibly foreseen the seismic influence and enduring cultural impact the show’s legacy would leave…
On the surface, Dutch filmmaker Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s Alpha. falls into the trap set out by most contemporary European festival circuit films. It’s a…
The name most likely to catch the attention of cinephiles in the credits of Shahab Fotouhi’s first feature Boomerang is co-editor Aleksandre Koberidze, who…
The first thing you need to understand about The Deliverance is that said deliverance is different from an exorcism — no intercessor is needed.…
For people of a certain age, author Joe R. Lansdale will likely always be best known as the writer of some of the best…
To its considerable credit, Stephen Soucy’s recent documentary, Merchant Ivory (2024), resists the tendency toward hagiography. It’s an understandably tempting opportunity, composed as the…
Mohit Ramchandani’s City Of Dreams is, in actuality, a cinema of nightmares. Or, more accurately, a cinematic nightmare. The film — which follows a…
Jeremy Saulnier’s new thriller Rebel Ridge doesn’t waste a moment of time getting wound up. Immediately, Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, in a terrific performance…
Six years ago Zia Anger’s live cinema presentation My First Film (from which the film My First Film is adapted) sparked a fire around…
Queen Elizabeth II’s love of horses is well known. She even made the trek to Kentucky five separate times during her reign to visit…
A tasteless trend in movie marketing to reveal titles one letter at a time transitioned seamlessly into movie-making at some point in the last…
In an early scene in Igarashi Kohei’s Super Happy Forever, Sano (Hiroki Sano) confronts a child on the beach. It’s a scene that feels…