Nicole Riegel’s debut feature Holler was an unusually sharp bit of indie realism, an unvarnished look at economic depression in the aftermath of NAFTA via…
Released the same summer as Independence Day, Jan de Bont’s 1996 special effects bonanza Twister helped kick off the late-’90s/early-2000s disaster movie glut. It’s…
Crossing opens with a title card stating that Georgian and Turkish are gender-neutral languages, with grammar not containing gender-oriented articles. We then are introduced…
Absence — no matter how great or small — creates mystery. Mystery inspires intrigue or, at the very least, interest. Interest encourages active engagement:…
Perhaps the first film where an alien ice mummy fails a breathalyzer test, Jesse Thomas Cook’s The Hyperborean aims for nothing less than the…
Having recently acquired a rustic palatial estate in the Irish countryside, Dani (Carolyn Bracken) tends to interior renovations while husband Ted (Gwilym Lee) works…
With little of the fanfare or cult of personality that has greeted the Peeles, Eggers, and Asters of the world, filmmaker Oz Perkins (I…
Throughout Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, the softly croaky and comforting voice of Martin Scorsese repeatedly reminds us that the…
Confusing glibness for frothy irreverence, Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon primarily caters to two long-underserved segments of the audience: those yearning for the…
Republics, as it were, are spaces of contradiction — the citizens’ collective supreme authority refracted through the figures of their representatives — whose political…
The rise of A24 as a production company and distributor has seen with it the public recognition, on Tik Tok and Reddit, of the…
The documentarian’s camera — more often than not — observes, investigates, and deliberates in media res. The past, then, is either recounted through a…
2024 has so far proven to be a great year for action cinema: whatever its flaws, The Fall Guy is a paean to stuntmen…
Ti West’s 2022 slasher pastiche X was somewhat of a return to form for a guy who keeps trying to make horror films that…
Actor-turned-director Monia Chokri’s The Nature of Love opens with a philosophical debate. In a brown-toned home, inflected with ember and golden highlights, old friends…
The first Beverly Hills Cop movie turns 40 this year, and it’s hard to overstate just how electric that movie is even today, a…
Primarily set in a single, sparsely-dressed location and embracing archness and theatricality, Niclas Larsson’s Mother, Couch could be mistaken for being based on a stage play.…
Late in Mary Chase’s Pulitzer-winner, Harvey, the theme of the play is delivered by — who else? — a salty cab-driver. The aptly-named E.J.…