Achingly personal films, theoretically, should be everywhere. Technology for the production of moving images is available to more people now than ever before. If one…
We’ve had plenty of animal attack movies over the years. Of course, Jaws is the granddaddy of killer sharks, spawning dozens of knockoffs of all…
The “YouTuber-to-filmmaker” pipeline is becoming a viable pathway to Hollywood success in 2026, particularly in the horror genre. In some notable cases, like with movie…
Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…
Bouchra, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s unusual, surprising, and often moving debut feature, centers on the relationship between its eponymous character, a queer Moroccan filmmaker…
A 106-minute wisp of a film that unspools like the searching nature of life, Alice Winocour’s Couture keeps alive the ethos of a filmmaker who…
Summer camp is a pivotal moment for many a young person. Attendee or counselor, it’s a time away from parents and responsibilities, which allows a…
In his 1908 novel A Room with a View, British novelist E.M. Forster probes the conflict between middle-class manners and sensual passion; his alliances lay…
Filmmaker Julian Schnabel returns to a familiar topic with his In the Hand of Dante… sort of. The painter-turned-acclaimed filmmaker has dedicated most of his…
“They say that long ago, on hilly Crete, the Labyrinth contained a weaving course among blind walls and countless twisting paths, impossible to trace or…
A maxim sometimes encountered in film writing — and one espoused in the transcript that follows — is the notion that a film teaches an…
If the end of the world left the children in charge, what kind of future might they build? This question simmers underneath a surface of…
Stardom is a morbid enterprise, and the life of its luminaries always has a tacit alliance with their expiration date. Often, fame intensifies upon death,…
In Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, the titular outlaw of English folklore spends his final years wandering the moors of 13th-century Britain, trying…
Mark Jenkin had been making films for years before his debut feature, Bait, effectively took the UK by storm. Success across the festival circuit (a…
On its surface, Haifa al-Mansour’s Unidentified is a crime thriller that follows a recent divorcee, Nawal (Mila Al Zahrani), as her true crime obsession emboldens…
Before diving into any of the specific details of Citizen Vigilante, let’s get straight into what the film actually is: racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop…
John Early is a tightrope artist. There’s little about his debut feature, Maddie’s Secret, that should work. With the DNA of a comedy sketch, Maddie’s…
“All films are time travel films, and all films are ghost films,” said filmmaker Mark Jenkin at a post-screening Q&A for the New York Film…
Girls Like Girls is gay, and (mostly) proud of it. The film is Hayley Kiyoko’s adaptation of her novel of the same title, which was…
Shark attack movies are clearly trying to mount some sort of cinematic comeback, with 2026 having already seen the releases of Deep Water and Thrash.…