Shin Godzilla exists in a class of its own, nearly experimental in its focus on political red tape in the face of a developing catastrophe,…
What’s the biggest mistake you’ve ever made on a night out? Those of us who’ve partaken in the odd intoxicating substance here or there might…
10 features into their directorial partnership — featuring nine documentaries — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi return to the place of their initial collaboration:…
With 2024’s Ghostlight, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson took on one of the great challenges in narrative cinema: of depicting grief, that most personal and…
Reverberation usually describes the phenomenon of a reflected and delayed sound impulse that, attenuated to the perceiving ear, has diverted into different manifestations from its…
To every aspiring, established, even failed artist, the world is a mystery: a panoramic playground populated with playthings they can liberally enjoy, experiment with, or…
Two depressed guys, a remote location, and loads of shit hitting the fan. Martin McDonagh doesn’t need much more to make sophisticated black comedies that…
Those Coca-Cola commercials with the CGI polar bears from the mid-’90s have a lot to answer for. Cuddly polar bear pups slurping bottles of soda…
In a video doing the rounds from the red carpet premiere of Klara and the Sun, an interviewer asks director Taika Waititi what it’s like…
The first two images of writer-director David Pablos’ On the Road are certain to grab the attention of any viewer: kerosene is poured over a…
The first of a two-part biopic of Charles de Gaulle’s efforts leading the French Resistance, with a title like De Gaulle: Résistance, it comes as…
You’re occasionally forgetting words for now, but gradually your memory will worsen. At first you won’t recall nouns, then verbs. You know verbs, right? Of…
Larry Fessenden has been delicately orchestrating his ersatz Universal Monsters vision for almost 20 years now. His self-starring Gen-X Dracula fable Habit premiered in 1996,…
Though it certainly remains formidable today, both for its physical grandeur and its towering spectacle as a preeminent wonder of the world, Mount Everest is…
Talk about your unexpected picks for franchise promotion: 2020’s Becky was a modestly-budgeted picture, offering the simple pleasures of a furious adolescent girl dispatching a…
Parker Tyler, eclectic film critic and champion of the early American avant-garde cinema, wrote in Underground Film, his critical history of the movement published in…
After his debut feature in 2008, Lance Hammer has finally arrived — or maybe one should say re-arrived. His first film in nearly two decades,…
In 2002, Hungarian director Pálfi György released his first film Hukkle to near-universal acclaim. The title, which is an onomatopoeia for the sound of a…
Kogonada’s latest film has a “latest by Kogonada” problem. The video-essayist-turned-director burst onto the scene with Columbus (2017), a quiet, poetic meditation on friendship and…
Contrary to the quick-take meta-narrative, the quality of Yeon Sang-ho’s filmography cannot and should not be limited to his four zombie films (Seoul Station, Train…
The sun shines through a windshield. We see a blue sky speckled with blinding white clouds. If heaven exists, and it’s up there, it doesn’t…