The Christophers Against the notion of cinematic auteurism, it has sometimes been thought enough to respond that, after all, cinema is a collaborative medium to…
Against the notion of cinematic auteurism, it has sometimes been thought enough to respond that, after all, cinema is a collaborative medium to which certain…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 novel A Pale View of Hills, with its unreliable first-person narrator and dual timelines of Nagasaki in the 1950s and England in…
Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s last film, 2023’s Green Border, was a fact-based drama about migrants who were lured to Belarus by false promises of asylum,…
As Bubi (Amerul Affendi), the dispassionate and dismally successful hustler of small scams, re-marries, he abandons his two sons, Ali (Idan Aedan) and Amir (Hadi…
When one sees enough festival films, certain patterns begin to emerge. This isn’t in reference to the thematic ones that are often articulated in critics’…
One of the more amusing filmmaking exercises of the last few years was 2023’s Inside, which depicted the steady unraveling of a man who becomes…
Unlike the two other entries in Dag Johan Haugerud’s thematically linked Love-Sex-Dreams trilogy, Dreams is not concerned with steadily paced dialogues or mature perspectives. While…
It’s been a while since the world has been treated to a new Hal Hartley film. The writer/director’s career, which kicked off with 1989’s The…
The History of Sound, from director Oliver Hermanus and writer Ben Shattuck, was met with a somewhat chilly critical reception at the 2025 Cannes Film…
There’s been a pandemic-level preponderance of hagiographic documentaries in the streaming era: David Beckham has one, Michelle Obama has one, Billy Joel got one just…
The terrain of the documentary genre has gradually flattened so that its parts are sometimes indistinguishable. Viewers are dealt an aesthetic continuum that seems increasingly…
Technically Steven King’s first novel, though published much later and under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Long Walk was inspired by the misery of the Vietnam…
The “end of the world” feels close for a group of Japanese teenagers in Neo Sora’s debut feature Happyend. Set in the not so distant…
Sermon to the Void Amid a churning torrent of acid gold, Hilal Baydarov’s Sermon to the Void unveils its true form, slipping away from its…
Amid a churning torrent of acid gold, Hilal Baydarov’s Sermon to the Void unveils its true form, slipping away from its preambulatory parable into something…
As the Western world’s exemplar of an exotic and fantastical Orient, the city of Bangkok has fashioned itself into a locale of permissivity where sin…
Claire Simon’s new documentary portrait Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students is, for the most part, strikingly straightforward. Clocking…
The most prolific filmmaker in the Baltics has returned. Šarūnas Bartas, the director behind The House and Peace to Us in Our Dreams, has been…
Traditionally, dramas dealing with characters moving on from relationships follow a three-part structure: the chronicling of the youthful highs of the first passionate relationship and…