Freakscene is worth a watch for completists, but anyone looking for a more comprehensive, well-structured deep-dive would do well to look elsewhere. Legendary indie rock…
In ultimately providing too many answers to its excessive plotting, A Chiara extinguishes some of its more troubling and intriguing possibilities. A gangster film from the…
Don Juan Serge Bozon’s follow-up to Madame Hyde (2017), Don Juan seems to continue that film’s revisionist update of a classic tale, while also returning in…
Look at Me is an entertaining Rorschach test, a declaration and a plea to study the evidence of a spectacular, troubled life. It begins with a…
Carried by Skeggs and Gellner’s relentlessly flickering energy, Dinner in America is a modest but unexpectedly sweet experience. Adam Rehmeier’s sophomore film Dinner in America updates…
Pusha T Let’s face it: Pusha T is an undeniable cornball. He’s the type of dude who thinks it’s impressive to claim that his brand…
The competing modes of The Tsugua Diaries result in the sense of one film slapped upon another, Gomes’ adventurousness sacrificed in the name of the contemporaneous. The…
Mariner of the Mountains is a beautiful family project that becomes diluted within the context of Aïnouz’s filmography, slowing the film’s considerable poetry. Per the film’s…
Final Cut Though remakes of beloved films are usually met with some degree of warranted skepticism, sometimes the combination of director and material is too…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a filmmaker with a profoundly idiosyncratic streak that belies his reputation in certain quarters as a “mere” horror director. Consequently, most of…
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers needs rescued from the Mouse House, which has here flattened the meta-reboot into a flavorless work of IP regurgitation. Somewhere…
Good Mourning isn’t the cult stoner comedy it angles to be, but there’s a welcome amiability that permeates the entire film, elevating this MGK vanity…
A New Old Play is a rich, complex contribution to the Chinese folk tradition, and a “theater” film for the ages. Without getting too far into…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or…
There isn’t much left to say about George Miller’s Mad Max films. They’ve gone from the first entry’s scrappy DIY exploitation to Fury Road’s multimillion-dollar,…
A New Era is no masterpiece, but it’s a far cozier and more fitting franchise send-off than its predecessor managed to be. Downton Abbey: A…
Emergency understands the tragedy of individuals forced to feel systematically dehumanized, but stumbles when it comes to logic, comedy, and tension. The college party movie, usually…
The Found Footage Phenomenon is a bland, talking head-heavy dud that feels like an incomplete Wikipedia article on its subject matter. If anything, new documentary…
Cane Fire is a kaleidoscopic portrayal of white supremacy’s brutal legacy and a challenge to the enduring colonial myth of Kauaʻi. In the investigative documentary Cane…
Summer of Changsa is an exercise in useless misery that feels lifeless from start to finish. Having premiered three years ago, all the way back at…