In experimenting with narrative in the cinema, we take on a capacity for expression that currently has no real affinities or structures. The imagination…
Cinema Sabaya, Israel’s Oscar submission this year, confronts the political in a manner both predictable and insidious. Let’s address the latter accusation first, as…
Skinner Myers’ feature debut is a serpentine construct, a vision of subjectivity that embraces both virtuousness and transgression, emphatic in its depiction of self-destruction.…
The tenets of toxic masculinity are tried and true, displayed in manifold methods of patriarchal oppression, and specifically in conjunction with a process of…
There are brief glimpses of confounding breadth present in JUNG_E, most cogent when projected across the extensive digital dreamscape that is this world’s reality.…
Properly encircling modern spheres of film analysis and critical study, documentary ethics are unfurling through heated dialectical discourses, which seek to question the materialist…
“A nation that doesn’t know its past, has a dull present and a future shrouded in fog.” So opens Alon Schwarz’s newest participatory documentary…
Corridors of Power is rooted in ideological ambivalence and provides a platform for imperialist voices to design history around their perspective. Israeli documentary filmmaker Dror…
Four Samosas cribs too liberally without any understanding of how to integrate such influences. At the risk of seeming belligerent or otherwise unfair, Ravi Kapoor’s…
Most viewers, though not equipped to discern the problematics of representing indigenous communities they aren’t part of, are still able to quite meaningfully evaluate…
Julia Mintz’ Four Winters ends up being nothing more than a collection of haphazard, indecipherable narratives. A recounting of Jewish resistance toward, and despite, the horrors…
My Imaginary Country finds Guzmán contending with nostalgia for perhaps the first time, and the resultant film isn’t quite sure how to handle this…
Increasingly perplexing are the motivations behind utilizing Super 16 to capture the angst and wherewithal of youth. It’s not that one should fully comprehend…
Rhetorically, the threatening specter of militarism looms just out of frame in Makbul Mubarak’s debut feature, Autobiography, a work extrapolated from the political and…
It’s the pillowing warmth of nostalgia, which sporadically rears its head that it may provide orientation and affirm consciousness amidst historical chaos, that makes…
Dos Estaciones is packed with precise images and lensed with beautiful attention to color and mise en scène, but it fails to satisfactorily develop its…
Ana Vaz’s meditative documentary on the conundrum of wildlife habitation, as considered through the intensified processes of urbanization, is a more frustrating exercise in…
Girl Picture is a pop-oriented confection of little substance, vapid writing, and seeming contempt for its characters. Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture is a confounding frustration.…