In Halfdan Ullman Tøndel’s single-location psychodrama Armand, the titular character is both an elephant in the room and a structuring absence from it. The…
Universal Language is, at its core, a community portrait. Matthew Rankin’s second feature was co-written and imagined by friends and collaborators Pirouz Namati and…
Grand Theft Hamlet is not what it says on the tin. Opening shots of landscape simulacra make readily apparent the aesthetic promise of staging…
“You can be beautiful or you can be ugly, but you can’t be plain,” says Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) to tentative sweetheart Sylvie Russo…
Engaged in a lengthy process of simultaneous expansion and refinement, the indefatigable Hong Sang-soo seems to practice a new, yet knowingly familiar, alchemy with…
“You’re an improbable person, and so am I. We have that in common. Also a contempt for humanity. An inability to love or be…
Lauded cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto — credited for Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon within the same calendar year — makes his directorial debut…
Almost 50 years into a career enriched and enlivened by restless motion, Robert Zemeckis tries his hand at total stasis with his latest film…
Just shy of 10 years after winning an ill-deserved Palme d’Or for Dheepan (2015) — a leering intrusion into the lives of a makeshift…
A smog of displacement and destiny envelops the opening minutes of La Cocina. As a homeless man on the streets of Manhattan waxes poetic…
Skye Riley is in trouble. One year after a near-fatal car crash, which exposed her mental health and substance abuse issues for all to…
Deep in the Himalayan wilderness, surrounded by a swelling symphony of wing-beats, two figures wait patiently in the dark. Indian lepidopterist Mansi is on…