Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Every pronouncement that points to a Second Coming ruptures the human sense of linear temporal experience, pulling one out…
How It Ends is the kind of pandemic-shot film that fails to capitalize on the novelty of its creation’s circumstance. New indie comedy How It…
Eyimofe is yet another sub work sliding in neatly under the exhausted moniker of European art house. Imagine, ever so briefly, that you’re actually in…
“I find ghosts in Japanese horror much more terrifying. In the standard American horror canon, because a ghost violently attacks you or comes after you,…
Anna Podskalská’s Red Shoes presents a popular and insidious trend within contemporary animated cinema at the moment, with its animation style aping the oil-painting-on-canvas approach taken with…
In Front of Your Face The films of Hong Sang-soo, ever so magical yet construed from the affairs of quotidian encounters, every minimal gesture compounding…
It feels churlish to criticize Shlomi Elkabetz’s Black Notebooks project, a deeply personal documentary that’s part travelogue, part diary entry, and part remembrance for his deceased sister, the…
Freda, the Creole-language narrative feature debut of actor-director Gessica Généus, is a film that hinges on a dilemma, a fraught existential crisis demanding resolution: whether to…
From Nouvelle Vague filmmakers like Jacques Demy, Jacques Rivette, and Alain Resnais to a contemporary auteur such as Bruno Dumont, or even the more mainstream-friendly…
France Bruno Dumont’s monumentally titled France takes the director’s search for spiritual transcendence amidst everyday violence into a new zone of satiric melodrama. Having taken…
The Works and Days is a gargantuan feat, one that ruminates on life’s impermanence and rewards viewers willing to spend time in its company. What…
The final Fear Street entry is something of a mixed bag, thriving in its eponymous past setting but floundering a bit as the series comes…
Space Jam 2 musters an engaging mid-film stretch, but it ultimately sinks under the weight of its overbearing corporate IP. Warner Brothers did their best…
Gunpowder Milkshake is a dog of a film, utterly derivative and lacking in any recommendable action spectacle. Take the weird mythology of the Johns Wick, the…
In Hong Kong’s tropical humidity, where sweltering bodies cram around mahjong tables or hunch over noodle stands, how can two people in a forbidden romance…
With Jubilee, Japanese Breakfast make a personal and social statement, proving indie rock doesn’t have to be tepid and stodgy. For the last couple of years,…
Baby and Durk are like the musical Jordan and Pippen… sort of. Lil Baby and Lil Durk: He’s the voice, and he’s the hero, as we’re informed…
Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land isn’t MARINA’s strongest album lyrically, but sonically it’s still a fun listen. Marina (stylized as MARINA) is not the same girl…
Gary Allan needs to stop trying to be cool and remember where he came from. Throughout the aughts, Gary Allan was one of the few consistent bright…
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions rides the same strengths of the original, resulting in a film that is a bit spare but still a feat of…
Home Video doesn’t have a distinct crescendo, but is still full of vulnerable gems that fans of Dacus will love. Now that Lucy Dacus has been inducted into…