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…
Julian of Norwich was a religious mystic and anchoress in the Middle Ages. After a grave illness during which she experienced visions of Christ on…
There’s certainly a long, intertwining history of cinema and science. Topics in biology, environmentalism, astronomical observation, and human-technology relations have remained at the forefront of…
With most established classics of cinema, it only takes a little work to extrapolate what each sequence is meant to convey to the viewer, but…
Balthazar — or Balthy, as he would be to his friends, if he had any — is a bright kid. But when your family’s rich…
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 This Dispatch: Dao, We Are the Fruits…
Alain Gomis’ new film achieves something both impressive and paradoxical. It is simultaneously intimate and panoramic. Dao is built around two very large family gatherings,…
Rithy Panh, the relentless chronicler of the atrocities perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, shifts his attention to another kind of destruction in his latest film,…
Sixto Muñoz lives alone, but he likes to visit town to have a few beers (which his friends are happy to buy for him) and…
At the center of Justin Jinsoo Kim’s And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was lies an impulse to excavate the past through memory.…
Although the draft was last sprung more than five decades ago, America’s fortunate sons have since fathered their own lucky offspring. Called to arms out…
Sometimes the footage is the thing. Nova ’78 represents the completion of an observational documentary by the late Beat-adjacent filmmaker Howard Brookner, perhaps best known…
Suburbia, There and Back is a landscape film set in the area around Paris, and eventually in the city itself. With static shots ranging from…
It might be a little premature to have the “late style” conversation with regard to the highly prolific Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who turns 69 in July.…
Documentarian Angelo Madsen, in his new documentary of BDSM performance artist Fakir Musafar, captured a tension at the heart of Musafar’s philosophy within the film’s…
The time travel mob comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice opens with the actor Ben Schwartz singing a foul-mouthed rendition of the Billy…
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…
As loglines go, a Chloë Sevigny-narrated, archive-heavy documentary about an infamous, largely discredited dolphin scientist has a kind of whimsical ring to it. And indeed,…
As of this writing, filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay turned 21 less than a week ago. She has also just premiered her sixth feature length film…