Director/cinematographer/co-writer Baatar Batsukh ends his new film Aberrance with a dedication to Darren Aronofsky, acknowledging the former indie darling/now-Academy Award-winning director’s influence on Batsukh’s…
In 1960, Merle Haggard was released from jail — he served a two-year stint in San Quentin for burglary. Before long, Hag started recording…
MMXX Few directors have explored the implications of real-time continuity — or a reasonable approximation thereof — as resolutely as Romanian director Cristi Puiu.…
Few directors have explored the implications of real-time continuity — or a reasonable approximation thereof — as resolutely as Romanian director Cristi Puiu. From…
After his disappointing 2021 film The Restless, a film in which a story of an artist’s manic episodes mostly provided an opportunity for actorly…
An artist and documentary filmmaker, Eléonore Saintagnan makes her feature debut with Camping du Lac, although such a biographical description does little to adequately…
Nicole Midori Woodford’s Last Shadow at First Light occupies an exasperating middle ground between heartfelt sincerity and hoary cliché, exploring generational trauma and survivor’s…
Saw X marks the tenth installment in the long-running horror franchise, as well as the third soft reboot in just six short years. Yet…
Irish poet and playwright W.B. Yeats once wrote, “It is love that I am seeking for, but of a beautiful, unheard-of kind that is…
Photography is the first sign that Soi Cheang’s Limbo is different from the director’s past work. Though his return to Hong Kong was bound…
In C.J. Obasi’s latest film, the small, relatively isolated village of Iyi is overseen by Mama Efe (Rita Edochie), the group’s intermediary who lives…
One way to discuss the content era we find ourselves in is to frame “content” as the antithesis of true “art.” The latter serves…
The Delinquents Blanket declarations about three-hour-plus runtimes always seem curious when filmmakers employ said length for wildly different purposes. Though the sweeping epic may…
It’s almost October, which means Cozy Anderson Autumn is officially upon us. While 2009’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox was a joyous animated heist movie…
Much has been written over the last few years of how the limited dramatic series has eroded the market for the mid-sized, adult-themed, star-driven…
Setting aside the relative quality of the movie itself, Gareth Edwards’ tech-heavy sci-fi epic The Creator is notable at the very least for not…
The most buzzed-about title at this past January’s Sundance (accompanied by an astonishing $20 million acquisition from Netflix), Chloe Domont’s Fair Play has been…
Patricia Mazuy, now six films deep in a three-decade-plus career with Saturn Bowling, has always risked a certain, tantrum-centric filmmaking, favoring characters with shared…