Under the aegis of the recently formed specialty label Clockwork, Warner Bros. Pictures is finally releasing a full restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils in…
50 years after gathering the Harlem Renaissance’s brightest minds in Duke Ellington’s townhouse, and a decade after his death, William Greaves’ magnum opus, Once Upon…
“The odds of being swallowed by a whale are not zero.” That little factoid is from a promotional tweet by the distributor of Whalefall, a…
Time is an amazing thing. It eludes us as we write, as we speak, read, and breathe, confounding us even more when things don’t follow…
Herman Yau has always courted the transgressive. One of the key names in Hong Kong’s early-to-mid-’90s exploitation scene, his Category III films (the strictest rating…
It’s hard to ignore the feeling that Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s The Idiot(s) hates its subjects. The film purports to chronicle the events around Fyodor…
Passion is subsumed into stricture in Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering, a graceful Burmese drama about the relationship between two colleagues at a garment factory. Patient…
Ok class, raise your hands if you would be excited to watch a nearly three-hour film about chess? I’m sure there are plenty of In…
At first glance, Dominik Moll’s Case 137 looks a lot like his last film, the César-winning The Night of the 12th. That film was a…
In the early 1990s, Derek Jarman’s career was at a crucial inflection point. The BBC was starting to fund feature films, and Derek’s angry, queer…
Aaron Sorkin began his directing career at the tender age of 56, decidedly later than most. As one of Hollywood’s most widely celebrated screenwriters, he…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy can best be described as confident: a bold step in the direction of an ample, maximalist horror. But it is seldom…
Sometimes, the riskiest thing to do can be to play it safe. With her 2016 breakthrough and solo directorial debut, Wolf and Sheep, Shahrbanoo Sadat…
Though Western cinephiles are likely most familiar with Herman Yau through the grisly Category III shockers he made with Anthony Wong (Taxi Hunter, The Untold…
There are movies we find undoubtedly bad — movies that get us worked up, that offend us, that ruin our day — but that at…
The thematic programs in MoMA’s retrospective commemorating the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop are generally grouped around certain political (“Make Love Not War”), poetic…
Luca Guadagnino’s neo-realist farce Artificial presents a parade of dipshits: 1) figuratively, as it introduces us to the careless architects of what many believe is…
A new horror short from Demon Knight and Bones director Ernest R. Dickerson is the best reason to see V/H/S: Mixtape, but even his segment…
“Can the copy of something embody the truth of its original self?” The world we have built for ourselves is an ersatz one. We gaze…
In Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, Josette (Josette Kwanya) is a widowed 80-year-old living alone in her vast house. All her children are scattered…
Animals, the new Netflix film from director-(co-)writer-actor Ben Affleck, is an uncredited adaptation of Ed McBain’s (nom de plume of writer Evan Hunter) 1959 novel…