To watch a Pete Ohs film is to watch a film unspool right before your eyes. While that may sound obvious — all movies play…
Frédéric Da wants to make it known that his new social drama, isaiah’s phone, is a work of complete fiction. This despite the film’s unsettling…
Few filmmakers have the benefit of having real, honest-to-goodness hype around their debut feature. Many of our best talents come out of nowhere with very…
Ben Wheatley has done it all. From humble beginnings with killer indies like Down Terrace and Kill List to Hollywood mega-productions like Rebecca and The…
Corpses are sliced open during an autopsy. Cult members devour fresh human organs before engaging in an orgy while still smeared with blood. A group…
Liminal spaces are all the rage these days. You can’t scroll for five minutes on any given social media app without seeing an image or…
While easy to forget given its catastrophic success, fascism came into the world a mess. The writer and public intellectual Umberto Eco wrote in a…
In just a few short years, the resonance of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a film already laced with devastating history and complications,…
I have one weak spot in my cinephile repertoire: war films. I like to say that I’m curious about any form film can take, and…
In the last decade or two, it often feels like action comedy speaks one language. You can blame Ryan Reynolds if you’d like, or maybe…
A man emerges from the forest, destitute. We follow him as he shambles through the streets, parks, hills, and graveyards of Cluj-Napoca. It’s his last…
From its opening frame, you realize that Caroline Golum isn’t interested in creating a world you’d recognize as “real” in her newest feature, Revelations of…
In just a few short years, it’s been a thrill to watch Alice Maio Mackay’s ascension. From her debut feature, So Vam, to Carnage For…
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid isn’t shy about his disgust toward his home country. A body of work examining Israel with a sense of frustration and…
Released in 1978 in what was then Czechoslovakia, Beauty and the Beast by director Juraj Herz follows a young woman who, to save her father,…
Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3 begins with two bodies in motion and ends with a woman trying to remember how to still herself. Somewhere between…
There’s no denying that a long tradition in horror exists of the unseen being scarier than showing the monsters. Hitchcock was famously quoted as saying,…
“And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said…
The concept of being a flop, a loser, a dud, an empty promise, and a failure in 2026. The new year is already growing old,…
After A New Love in Tokyo, Banmei Takahashi turned beyond the mortal realm. Japan was fine. His films — whether through home video as V-Cinema or…
Italian-American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi has been making films for 30 years, but they’ve never quite been entirely about what is shown on the screen. His…