Maybe Our Land, Lucrecia Martel’s new film, reminds me of Edits, Chuquimamani-Condori’s 2025 laptop dump of DJ edits, simply because I listened to the latter…
Arnaud Desplechin cares very little for narrative cohesion. In a career filled with elliptical, loose threads as films, Two Pianos finds the director at his…
In some respects, the “officially sanctioned” of the SWYC Collective’s productions — it was scheduled for broadcast in China, before it was pulled by its…
Early on in Francesco Sossai’s wistful, funny The Last One For The Road, a German tourist at a bar declares that he’s here to see…
Few manga adaptations are as alive as Sho Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers. There are no bright, poppy explosions of color or wacky antics within…
When a long-suppressed work of art finally surfaces, it generates unexpected conceptual ripples. We understand that the work was made in a particular time and…
It’s never easy admitting that you’re getting old. As we round the corner into the mid-2020s, an entire generation has to reckon with the idea…
A legend like Kiyoshi Kurosawa might not need any introduction, but what you find out when talking with him is that he’s very different from…
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…