In this Roundup: Film Reviews…
For a certain kind of action movie fan, DTV action has long been where the real hidden gems lie. From the long-touted Universal Soldier: Day…
Carla Simón’s parents passed away when she was only six years old. As an adult, she’s spent her filmmaking career unpacking what that’s meant to…
What becomes quickly apparent when diving into Izabel Pakzad’s directorial debut Find Your Friends is that by basically every metric you might generally judge a…
Given their inherently terrifying nature, it’s a wonder that killer cephalopods are not allotted much space in terms of cinematic appreciation. From their billowy, spectral…
The latest installment of Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard’s epic-length project Castration Movie is a departure in a few ways. For one thing, Part iii.ii, or…
Social realism and soap opera generally have more in common than the po-faced occupiers of your local arthouse would like you to believe. Every time…
Any casual viewer of arthouse cinema from the past decade is likely to experience immediate déjà vu upon sitting down to watch Savage House: what does…
The great Malcolm D. Lee’s new Peacock streamer Strung opens with an arresting scene of Laila Calloway (the potentially computer-animated actor and popstar Chloe Bailey),…
It’s a strange position Eric André finds himself in. For a few years, he was the great hope for a fringe oddball to slip into…
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Xue Ma’s films are radically unique. There’s a strange romance, explicit and implicit, and a profane magic that permeates the Chinese ex-pat’s White River (2023),…
Ryuya Suzuki’s Jinsei is clearly a labor of love. Completed over an 18-month period, Suzuki wrote, directed, hand-drew, and scored the film, his feature debut,…
In an early scene in Igarashi Kohei’s Super Happy Forever, Sano (Hiroki Sano) confronts a child on the beach. It’s a scene that feels devoid…
If what Emmanuel Levinas said about the human face is true — that it “orders and ordains” us — then sudden, violent facial destruction signals…
Couture’s scenario reads like something straight out of the 1950s. Three women — an ingenue model from a humble background, a struggling makeup artist with…
The nexus of trite and thesis-like is where Lilian T. Mehrel’s Honeyjoon coalesces; a light, personal rumination on the shared experience of grieving, Mehrel’s easygoing…
Two young boys, one reserved and one outgoing, become fast friends at elementary school in Kohei Kadowaki’s ambitious and thoughtful animated film We Are Aliens,…
Among civilized Europe, the French as a collective may have a unique predilection for social dysfunction, or at least a unique openness to confronting and…
As an adult, returning to watch a beloved film from childhood can be a most delightful experience. That which charmed you then may still charm…