A Chicken Run sequel is like an admission of defeat from Aardman Animations, as is the upcoming Wallace and Gromit film. They seem to…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is no stranger to explorations and dramatizations of injustice in her work. Journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction book Caste: The Origins…
The Three Musketeers: Part I — D’Artagnan, the first of two entries as its title implies, is the French’s first major attempt at the…
An experiment of replacing craftspeople, necessary in most film productions, with an entourage of artists, The Peasants is a pictorially impeccable film. Artistic partners…
The words “A Shudder Original” don’t exactly convey a distinct meaning — not yet. While Shudder has released dozens of films, the platform is…
The last decade has seen a dramatic metamorphosis of Chinese documentary. The vibrant independent and zero-budget documentary ecosystem of the 2000s — from which…
Alice Rohrwacher’s cinema occupies a unique place in the festival landscape, part pleasingly familiar and part bracingly daring, especially in the context of her…
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka, retitled The Boy and the Heron for the English-speaking world but better translated as How Do You Live?, is…
Before the colonization of New England by the forebears of the American empire, what would come to be known as Rhode Island today was…
An environmental disaster has rendered, seemingly, the entire world uninhabitable, with the last remnants of humanity clinging to a relic of the past, representing…
Despite the decimal of Godzilla Minus One’s Japenese title, written as -0.1, echoing Hideaki Anno’s Rebuild of Evangelion series, Tōhō’s iconic series has taken…
John Woo is perhaps the greatest director of action films of the last 40 years; at the very least, the competition is quite slim.…
Writer-director Fabián Hernández’s miserablist slice-of-life drama A Male concerns Carlos (Dylan Felipe Ramírez Espitia), a young teenager navigating the mean streets of Bogotá, Colombia.…
In Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut The Sweet East, Lillian (Talia Ryder) snaps to Ian (Jacob Elordi), “I believe that you’re more enamored in…
In This Issue: FEATURES: IT’S BACK: ADAPTATIONS OF STEPHEN KING’S HORROR EPIC by Mike Thorn FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE: AFI FEST 2023, coverage by Andrew Dignan:…
As the star of Hong Sang-soo has improbably grown, the traditional (and often erroneous) stereotypes lobbed against his films have stayed stuck in the…
There’s much to like about Paris Zarcilla’s debut feature-length film, Raging Grace, a sorta-kinda horror movie that flirts with very familiar territory before eventually…
After a shamelessly nepotistic career reboot last year with Snipers, a high-profile blockbuster directed with (and seemingly largely by) her father Zhang Yimou, Zhang…