Death hangs over the first moments of The Temple Woods Gang, the riveting seventh feature from French-Algerian filmmaker Rabah Ameur-Zaimëche. Grizzled military retiree Pons (Régis…
Toward the end of Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition trilogy (1959-61), his unsparingly brutal anti-war epic about the Japanese military’s unsparingly brutal treatment of its…
Following nearly three years of an ongoing pandemic, everyone has a new understanding of isolation. After varying degrees of social distancing regulations and masking recommendations,…
The elevator pitch for Spaceman sounds like the wind-up to a bad joke. Here’s a somber metaphysical tone poem wherein a scrappy Czech space program…
As Mel Gibson’s star was rising in the 1980s, he was becoming increasingly self-destructive. By the peak of his fame in the ’90s, he was…
Despite being full of traditional Western tropes — including images of riding horseback through the dusty American plains and violent shootouts in dingy taverns —…
The “social issue” film in contemporary Bollywood has as many forms of expression as it has sub-categories of issues. Take, for instance, the “women-centric” film.…
Dutch director Sacha Polak set a very high bar for herself with Hemel, her 2012 debut feature. Raw and at times agonizing, Hemel is a…
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In Ghosts of My Life, the late writer Mark Fisher writes, about hauntology: “Those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to…
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Keir O’Donnell is chiefly recognized as an actor, arguably best known for his supporting turn in 2005’s Wedding Crashers, in which he played a young…
Ah, just what 2024 moviegoers needed: another rural crime-thriller rumination on God, Family, and Violence. Red Right Hand, the latest from Ian and Eshom Nelms…
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We return to the year 10,191 for Dune: Part Two, the cleverly named second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal, beloved work…
In one way, horror fans have a lot to be happy about. Over the past decade, the genre has broken out of its “midnight movie”…
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In the AI-drenched bizarro world that is 2024, the premise of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, released 20 years ago this spring,…