Wilco For a while, it seemed like nothing ever came easy for Wilco. Early classics like Being There and Summerteeth bore the marks of personal…
The Black Phone establishes a new high water mark for masked killer horror, singular and effective in its eerie details even if a bit familiar in…
“…love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them…
The Man from Toronto is as familiar as assassin-centric action-comedies come, but nevertheless proves a refreshing blast of mid-summer fun on the strength of its affable…
CIVIL wades into necessary discourse, but stops short of probing any of the thornier facets of Crump or the culture that has led to his work.…
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis delivers what’s expected: thrillingly pure exhibitionism for its own sake, the kind of massively scaled contemporary blockbuster in too short supply in…
Flux Gourmet has a few tasty morsels, but it mostly offers glimpses at the more adventurous filmmaker that Strickland used to be. The films of Peter…
Lakota Nation vs. United States “U.S. history is a branch of a larger tree of history… but it’s that covetous branch that thinks it’s the…
After a prolific run of eye-shredding digital shorts produced throughout the 2010s, Berlin-based visual artist Rainer Kohlberger has begun touring his first feature-length project, Answering…
Jack Harlow “Back when I was a young man / I liked them girls that was in the Abercrombie / I likеd them girls that was…
A Man of Integrity is a probing, challenging film, a poetic latticework of sadness and anger. Leave it to the fates of film distribution that Iranian…
Apples boasts a rich starting premise, but too often undermines its conceptual potency with obvious punchlines and lazy sentimentality. What would society look like if…
On the occasion of Paul McCartney’s 80th birthday, I decided to burden myself with the unforgiving task of writing about the Beatles. After trying out…
After Sherman At its most fraught, to be Black is to feel as if locked in constant battle with the external forces committed to devaluing…
Beba is a uniquely fascinating or formally gorgeous mining of personal history, one that fully immerses viewers into its subject’s headspace. “You are now entering…
The Other One is an overcomplicated affair, but also a hyper-stylized and thrillingly violent one, and further proof that American blockbuster cinema is lagging. Released in…
Good Girl Jane Writer-director Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s debut feature, Good Girl Jane, treads a well-worn path in its portrayal of an innocent teenage girl’s eventual…
No one is going to mistake Lightyear for a return to form for Pixar, but its littered small pleasures make for an inoffensive animated space yarn.…
Spiderhead is pure algorithm “art,” an empty bad-tech tale that delivers nothing new or exciting. You’d be forgiven for getting excited for a mid-budget, talent-driven, non-IP-based…
Jerry and Marge Go Large presents its larger-than-life tale with restraint and sincerity, imbuing its caper framework with the tenderness of a Christmas comedy. If you’ve…
Artist and critic Fred Camper once called Howard Hawks (and I’m paraphrasing from memory here) the “hardest to define of all the classic Hollywood auteurs,…