The 1960s to early 1970s was a truly utopian moment. In the hangover of Imperial Japan, the concomitant decolonization of the “Third World,” and the…
Set in the rural Spanish countryside, Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren’s 20,000 Species of Bees centers on a transgender eight-year-old girl who happens to be visiting family…
Appreciating the work of Barry Gerson in recent years has been somewhat difficult. His work remains noted in high regard when it’s shown and mentioned,…
It’s rare, but not unheard of, for a filmmaker to land their debut feature in competition at Cannes. Such instances include Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies…
2020’s Bad Boys for Life, the third installment of the series after a 17-year gap, was “lucky” enough to come out mere months before Covid…
Kit Zauhar should probably be one of the shining bastions of American independent cinema today. Her two features to date represent two forms of the…
There’s an immediate insecurity to The Watchers, the directorial debut from Ishana Night Shyamalan. Mina (Dakota Fanning), a flatly cynical American decamping in a dead-end…
A good animal attack movie doesn’t need to overstuff its checklist. Basically, all the film needs to do is trap a bunch of folks in…
An angry young girl runs away, leaving behind an affluent but troubled home life to throw in her lot with unsupervised older teenagers and low-level…
If one is to survey a slate of HBO’s flagship programming — say, The Sopranos, Succession, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, and now House of…
In contrast with the high-profile and ostentatious trappings of Everything Everywhere All At Once, which enmeshed the idiosyncrasies of genre with patent identity politics, Kit…
Am I OK?, the directorial debut of Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, is a simple, mostly familiar coming-out story that follows Lucy (Dakota Johnson), a…
ESSAYS THE IMAGE AND THE AFTERGLOW: JANE SCHOENBRUN’S I SAW THE TV GLOW FEATURE BY: Frank Falisi THE JOY OF THEIR MAKING: THE FILMS OF…
“The island is safe, except for those who aren’t invited.” This quote from one of the natives on the Italian island where a rich and…
Cinematographer and film critic Carson Lund moves to the director’s chair with Eephus, a laid-back comedy following a ragtag group of men as they play…
By the time Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá También) took over from Chris Columbus to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third…
Babatunde Apalowo’s feature debut, All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White, is a moving portrait of gay desire, class, and masculinity.…
Patrick Dickinson’s Cottontail is an unusual type of ghost story. Its apparitions, such as they are, appear mostly in flashbacks, half-remembered tales, and, most prominently,…
If the recurring discourse cycles of online spaces, namely on Twitter, are to be believed, we are in for some seriously prudish times. Every so…
In his seminal 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, George Romero takes a few minutes to detail the final gasps of a television station trying…