When first introduced in About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), an art teacher, has been in the remote village of…
Danis Tanović might be the most personal, visually compelling, and thematically thoughtful political auteur working in European cinema. And regrettably, his name will largely go…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding…
In his critical study “Discourse and the Novel,” Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin described narrative fiction as a process by which individual characters are defined…
When it was released back in late 2021, Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the director’s first feature film since the dissolution of the long,…
In the ongoing writing of the history of film, only a few summative propositions have ossified into matters of fact. The notion that the introduction…
Considering the wealth of nightmarish aesthetic possibilities, it’s difficult to understand why stop motion animation isn’t more heavily utilized within the realm of horror. Sure,…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding…
The films of Antoine Bourges are measured by their restraint. Noted for their blurring of documentary and fiction, Bourges immerses himself in under-represented places at…
Matteo Garrone’s new film Io Capitano includes a map of the exact overland path taken by its two main characters during the end credits, charting the indirect route from Dakar to…
It seems that — at least in the past few years — a considerable number of films have proven their ability to manifest new sensibilities…
Speeding right past Truffaut’s famous “there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie” dictum, William Eubank’s new gung-ho military action-thriller Land of Bad declares itself…
God knows it’s hard to get noticed in the indie film scene these days, which is why Jon Bass’ new experiment in self-releasing warrants some…
Jennifer Lopez, in recent years, has made a comeback from her early career to new levels of critical and commercial success. Lopez dominated Netflix streaming…
Writing on the difficulties of representing addiction, Leslie Jamison notes that the process of sobriety is seen as a “tedious addendum” to the riveting blaze…
It’s been over 20 years since the legendary HBO miniseries Band of Brothers captivated you and your dad with its scrupulous, detailed, and reverent depiction…
It’s difficult to think of a more cynical, creatively stagnant genre than the celebrity musical biopic. Seriously, even the comic book movies will produce the…
Written and directed by Erblin Nushi, I Love You More is a delicate film which explores the heartbreak of queer adolescence. The film centers on…
Kimi Takesue’s third feature film is a fraught, respectably reflexive process in objectification. Utilizing the much ado of the tourism industry as our subject (through…