At the start of Manas, Tielle’s world seems boundless, idyllic. Tielle, short for Marcielle, is a 13-year-old girl played with astounding maturity by Jamilli Correa.…
Passenger starts with a prayer. “Carry me safely to my destined place, like you carried Christ in your close embrace,” ends the prayer to St.…
Saccharine was inevitable. In the Western world, there’s never been a worse time to have a body. Navigating the Internet is an exercise in polarity…
“The working man is a sucker” — so reads the opening title card of Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny,…
In the age of virality, who will remember the snuff film? 1978’s Faces of Death, a documentary-style gorefest, is the stuff of dorm-room legend. “They…
Where do you go once you’ve reached the top? By 2007, Juliette Binoche was running out of peaks to summit: she’d won international acclaim with…
Balthazar — or Balthy, as he would be to his friends, if he had any — is a bright kid. But when your family’s rich…
Marc Jacobs is everywhere. In Marc by Sofia — the Sofia of the title being Coppola — the Lost in Translation director makes a case…
James Benning is a master of moments. Over a career that spans five decades and twice as many modal deviations, Benning abstracts the American Problem…
Dolly lays its porcelain head at the altar of Leatherface. Rod Blackhurst’s bootstraps indie horror is unabashedly pious toward The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the seminal…
We need to talk about Tommy. In Jan Komasa’s Heel, Tommy (Anson Boon) is a proper hooligan. His nights out mean rails of cocaine in…
You might not know Nick Corirossi, but if you’ve spent enough time in alt-comedy circles, you may have heard of his alter-ego. “Bug Mane” is…
Bebe Go’s 11 starts with a concession: “in february 2020, i received a grant to make a feature film,” reads its lime-green title cards. “the…
In “Wuthering Heights” — as Emerald Fennell sees it — death and ecstasy rest on the head of the same pin. Its opening credits are…
Moments in pop music come and go, but none in recent memory have been eulogized quite like brat summer. Within a year, the promotional tail…
It’s low on the list of 21st century horrors, but there’s something uniquely off-putting about watching a self-recorded video of someone crying. It’s tough to…
M3GAN is dead, long live Monkey. In 2022, Gerard Johnstone’s yassified murder doll injected new life into the January horror canon, TikTok dancing across the…
That George W. Bush’s war on terror was a farce is all but written history. The craven hunt for oil under the guise of WMDs…
A life’s linearity is only a biproduct of meticulously constructed narrative. In hindsight, things seem straightforward: clinging to your older sister’s pantlegs, you survive a…
Left-Handed Girl is a movie of debts: of money owed to hospitals and landlords, of time owed to family, of the obligations of history. For…
The bees are dying. That’s bad news for all of us, but for Teddy (Jesse Plemons), the apiarist at the center of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia,…