There’s no denying the contemporary trend to “narrativize” otherwise fact-based documentaries, filmmakers shaping reams of footage into something resembling the three-act structure of the…
Coincidentally or not, Sarvnik Kaur’s new documentary Against the Tide arrives just one year after Shaunak Sen’s acclaimed 2022 doc All That Breathes. The…
There are strange goings-on in the Stains suburbs of France, an assemblage of stark high-rise buildings that are home to a collection of everyday…
One of the pleasures of encountering experimental film and video in a festival setting is the chance to get a survey, the lay of…
Here at InRO, we’ve been banging the drum for low-budget action auteur Jesse V. Johnson for years. Best known for his numerous collaborations with…
Another week, another disposable Netflix feature that barely registers even as you’re watching it, seemingly designed to evaporate upon release (all the better to…
It’s easy to synopsize the minimal plot of the bizarre new South Korean whatsit The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra — fungus growing on a mattress…
At least a decade too late to cash in on the YA franchise craze, David Slade’s Dark Harvest sputters into a limited day-and-date theatrical/VOD…
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…
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…
Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside begins on an appropriately ominous note; the camera prowls down a dark hallway, blood-splattered on walls and bodies lying…
Already an acclaimed editor on films such as Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light & Post Tenebras Lux and Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja, as well as an…
There are a few different films all struggling for screen time in Noah Collier & Emily MacKenzie’s new documentary Carpet Cowboys, including a treatise…
Youssef Chebbi’s horror-tinged police procedural Ashkal (being released in the States officially as Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation) begins with a brief explanation of The Gardens of…
Mother Lode straddles a few different lines in its depiction of the grueling lives of gold miners in the mountains of Peru. For all…
Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil takes the broad, familiar strokes of the revenge drama and fashions them into something altogether more tragic. The…
In a recent think piece for Salon, critic Sam Adams asks “Where did all the hacks go?” He’s mainly talking about Disney’s penchant for…