Director David Mackenzie has had a fascinating career; in the past, we’d likely consider him a talented journeyman, the sort of solid professional who…
The author Hunter S. Thompson is widely credited with founding the “Gonzo journalism” movement, which is informally defined as incorporating subjective language and satire…
“Hope is the dream of those who are awake,” muses Nélida (Soledad Pelayo) to her daughter, Elisa (Martina Passeggi), in a display of gentle…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that…
It’s worth beginning where a piece like this usually doesn’t, because Munich is the kind of movie Steven Spielberg usually doesn’t make: in a…
After This Death Movies about the music industry can be a tough pitch. Selling a superstar artist as just that demands either the savviest…
Movies about the music industry can be a tough pitch. Selling a superstar artist as just that demands either the savviest ear for commercially…
“You sound cool talking out your ass,” Bruce (Anthony Oberbeck) quips to his best friend and roommate, Simon (newcomer Tristan Turner), a struggling filmmaker.…
There’s much to like about Victoria Franco’s Twelve Moons, a serious-minded drama about loss and addiction that avoids easy platitudes and simplistic moralizing. That is,…
Karl Marx’ oft-cited quip about how history repeats itself, “first as a tragedy, second as a farce,” could easily apply to Special Operation, Oleksiy…
There are filmmakers so dominant that you can detect their influence in the works of other filmmakers throughout the years, around the world —…
To coin an adage, directing a Stephen King adaptation is like getting a tattoo: it’s difficult to stop at one. The only thing harder…
It’s hard to pinpoint when Wes Anderson The Brand caught up with Wes Anderson The Director. It might have been some time around his…
With an official title like From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, it seems like some kind of warning is being telegraphed. Spinning off…
As the onset of summer movie season increasingly inches its way toward late winter, it becomes more and more difficult to establish any kind…
It all starts with a bang. Sirât immerses itself into a spectacular DIY rave in the Moroccan desert, before its narrative kicks off proper.…
“Knights are now rooks! All bishops must leave the board! Pawns can now fly!” — not a surrealist pamphlet upon obvious improvements to the…
John Maclean’s first feature, the grimy, spare Western Slow West, established him as a clever manipulator of genre tropes, and capable of stretching a…