Through four feature films and some assorted shorts, Indonesian madman Timo Tjahjanto has proven to be one of our foremost purveyors of cinematic gore. Whether…
If the arc of the moral universe indeed bends toward justice, then there just might have been a sliver of proof in the sold-out screening…
In a crowded field of sci-fi adaptations, the buzzy TV treatments of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven stand out. In…
Properly encircling modern spheres of film analysis and critical study, documentary ethics are unfurling through heated dialectical discourses, which seek to question the materialist functions…
Step back while reading Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical opus The Years, and you will find yourself pausing a survey of a collection of photographs. These still…
It takes a kind of charming naïveté these days to purport to represent the vagaries of sexuality onscreen without so much as a sideways glance…
Emancipation attempts, and mightily fails, to balance a film stodgy enough to play in a high school classroom with Hollywood’s typically rousing approach to historical epic…
Something from Tiffany’s isn’t much more substantive than your average holiday rom-com, but it’s leads are so likeable and its approach so breezy that it…
Even by James Cameron standards, The Way of Water is an astonishing work of pure visual spectacle. Bow down before your Lord and Savior, James…
Has there been a director so wildly prolific as Johnnie To in our modern era? Hong Sang-soo comes to mind, albeit occupying a radically different…
It’s 2016 and Dana (Mallori Johnson), a 26-year-old woman who suddenly transplants from New York to Los Angeles with no job, no friends, and minimal…
In 1968, Richard Fleischer democratized the participants of the crime procedural with The Boston Strangler, spearheading a new school of form as applied to the…
And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is a more spiritual and communal record for Weyes Blood, speaking to both the personal and universal with delicate…
Empire of Light is a misguided, overly aestheticized slog built upon mawkish sentimentality. Somewhere along the way in Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, it becomes quite…
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed proceeds in such awe of its subject that it strips the film of any thorniness that the material demands. All…
Hidden Letters is a film as slight as the script it documents. Among the slighter entries in the Tribeca line-up is Violet Du Feng and Zhao…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio takes its well-worn titular tale and manages to make it feel fresh, despite a few incoherencies along the way. In what seems…
Taurus is ultimately too informed by MGK’s real-life persona and proves aimless as an attempt to contend with the great generational tragedy of its subject matter.…
One Fine Morning doesn’t stand out in Hansen-Løve’s filmography, but there’s enough here to suggest that it could resonate more fully in the long term. Stepping…
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale boasts an interest back-to-his-roots quality, but also affirms all of the director’s worst tendencies. Although The Whale is an adaptation of the…