“Eat the rich” satires didn’t start under Trump, but it certainly feels like they’re accelerating of late. We’re less than a month removed from the…
Despite many noble dead on the field, the battle to prohibit video games from the hall of art has long since failed. The temple is…
Contemporary indie cinema may lack in quality, but it absolutely does not lack in the quantity of up-and-coming filmmakers majorly taking inspiration from the grainy…
Snow White was always inevitable. Joining the ranks of recent live-action adaptations such as The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and this summer’s upcoming Lilo…
In the sci-fi-horror film Ash, an ethnically and geographically diverse group of astronauts is dispatched to the farthest corners of the galaxy as Earth’s last…
In this day and age of IP-driven slopbusters, any film that dares to respond to a pre-existing intellectual property is worthy. Responding requires the filmmaker,…
Wrapped up in the question of what it means to be a good parent is the more loaded question of what it means to be…
Michael Townsend, the Rhode Island artist at the center of Jeremy Workman’s documentary Secret Mall Apartment, knows that taking up space is a political act.…
Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia begins, as so many stories do, with a homecoming. When first introduced, 30-something Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) is driving to his rural hometown…
Jonathan Majors is poised to become a household name this year, with high-profile roles in upcoming installments of the MCU and extended Rocky franchises due…
Director Craig Johnson has worked with alums of Saturday Night Live before: His 2014 film The Skeleton Twins featured nuanced leading performances from Kristen Wiig…
In a landscape crowded with thrillers about obsession and celebrity, Jimmy Warden’s Borderline tries to carve out its own space, mixing ‘90s nostalgia, dark humor,…
The most experimental regional cinema in the world might belong to the Arab Levant. As a region destabilized by a non-Indigenous oppressive neighbor for virtually…
In The Actor, memory pulls at the neck of Paul Cole (André Holland) like a diving tether that threatens to snap at every turn of…
Given the well-publicized fate of the ostensibly never-to-be-released Coyote vs. Acme, it’s sort of a miracle that there’s a new Looney Tunes movie at all,…
In the opening scene of Who by Fire, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage’s latest feature, a car pulls over along a highway for a brief rest…
You could argue that it’s extremely ironic that The Electric State, an absolutely dismal movie about humanity learning to love corporate-branded A.I. robots rising up…
Set in the year 2019, An Unfinished Film is a fictional documentary about a film crew that reunites to finish a queer feature from 10…
Empires, as a rule, do not exist in the plural, for each empire conceives of itself as sovereign and total. In practice, this solipsism has…
Depending on who you talk to, Paul W.S. Anderson might be considered a hack who makes demonstrably janky movies based adapted from the lesser artform…