Across five feature films to date, most of which exist within a liminal space located between fiction and documentary narrative, demarcated with blurred lines, Roberto…
At first, Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert of Namibia seems to be just another entry in what this writer is calling Millennium Mambo-core, after the growing yet…
“I hate ’love’ in my own language,” says the Norwegian music artist and novelist Jenny Hval in the title track from her album The Practice…
History — personal, political, and its inseparable intertwinement — is, perhaps, most truthfully realized when vividly expressed, not just recorded. Documentarian greats like Ken Burns…
Filled with the rhythm of a rock song and the visual language of a nightmare, Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight feels like the mix spun from…
Given a title like The Old Woman with the Knife, viewers will likely enter expecting to see an old woman killing people with a knife.…
The Final Destination franchise is anything you want it to be. Its six not-so-varied variations of death engaging in a cruelly one-sided game of chess…
Coming-of-age films are rarely as frank about the relationship between sex and politics as André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds. The film traces the lives of students…
Over the last 30 years, the Mission: Impossible series has mutated from a simple blockbuster star vehicle, to an action director’s showcase for the likes…
Violent Cop as a title stands emblematic of the far simpler film that could have been. It’s a title straight out of the rural garage…
The music documentary is a pretty dependable product, sure to find space in a number of festival nonfiction lineups and, eventually, the programs of independent…
There are so few solid, meat-and-potatoes American action films every year that get studio resources and an actual theatrical release that one is almost tempted…
Masculinity has long been amorphous and tricky; it’s an endlessly fascinating and complex concept to all except those who need it and those who sell…
Much has changed in the world over the past 10 years. A worsening environmental crisis has decimated the way of life for millions of people.…
It’s a great time to be a Josh Hartnett fan. The actor has enjoyed a considerable career resurgence as of late, delivering a memorable supporting…
The opening sequence of Gareth Evans’ new Netflix original Havoc — a hotly anticipated action epic from the director of the modern classic The Raid…
It’s hard to read, let alone write, a piece of film criticism today that doesn’t talk about the lack of creativity in the industry. As…
One of the more compelling elements of the crime film occurs when a seemingly normal person gets roped into a series of illicit acts or…
Alternating between icky-squishy horror, fish-out-of-water comedy, and doppelgänger abstraction, director Kourtney Roy’s Kryptic certainly lives up to its title. If the whole thing ultimately feels…
Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides, currently in U.S. theaters after initially premiering nearly a year ago at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May…