Escape Room: Tournament of Champions rides the same strengths of the original, resulting in a film that is a bit spare but still a feat of…
Jacquot’s latest sticks to the directors strengths, mining poignancy from the inexplicable and beauteous. As erratic and eccentric as any new film by Benoît Jacquot…
Die in a Gunfight isn’t the worst Romeo and Juliet adaptation on record, but it’s certainly not a good one. The last thing the film…
The dull and ethically dubious Mama Weed fails to live up to the gonzo promise of its title. With a premise and (English language) title sure…
Japanese Breakfast For the last couple of years, big Internet music press has been hellbent on selling us this notion that indie rock is still…
Meander is a dull and derivative dud that fails to deliver the requisite thrills or kills demanded of its genre. On a desolate stretch of road…
The Tsugua Diaries The Tsugua Diaries would be considered quite the swing for most any other director, but for Miguel Gomes, here partnered with documentarian…
Migos There’s an alternate timeline where Culture III never came to be, where, following the January 2018 release of Culture II, the trap trio went…
The Call’s throwback vibes don’t do much to add to its predictable style and lack of notable scares. Arriving on the heels of the Fear…
Each one of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films is a series of echoes and recurrences, palimpsests of what has preceded and teasing forebears of what’s to follow.…
Moneyboys A tacked-on melancholy shoulders, for the most part, the dramatic weight present in C.B. Yi’s carefully composed and frequently arresting first feature. Moneyboys, as…
Pig isn’t the Nic Cage film you’re expecting — it’s better. It’s tough to recall a recent film — particularly outside the auteur context — that…
Her Socialist Smile is yet another landmark work from Gianvito, more intimate than his usual but no less fiercely and formally intelligent. John Gianvito’s Vapor Trail…
Bergman Island Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island is, quite literally, an insular film. Set almost entirely on the island of Fårö, where the legendary Swedish filmmaker…
Roadrunner doesn’t revolutionize the portrait documentary, but it does execute its essential elements with pathos and formal precision. The late culinary connoisseur Anthony Bourdain once…
George Romero’s two 1978 releases, Dawn of the Dead and Martin, represent the director at the apex of his career as an artist who had…
Cow Depending on your perspective — and depending on the film — Andrea Arnold’s cinema vacillates between kitsch and kitchen sink, her intended brand of…
The Halt is another epic and epically long Lav Diaz effort, one that might be his most accessible work yet. When dealing with Lav Diaz,…
Though the films of John Cassavetes are often erroneously described as “improvised” or “verite,” claims that belie Cassavetes’s formal fidelity, it was a modernist, Virginia…
Modest Mouse Modest Mouse has touched heights few of their contemporaries have managed (or, necessarily bothered to pursue), the band’s career a curious journey beginning…
Like Blindspotting before it, Summertime is glib in its politics and hollow in its messaging. In one of the more telling recent Hollywood career leaps, L.A.-based music video director…