In his recent book Filmmakers Thinking, Adrian Martin quotes the German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky at length regarding the “dialogues” that all filmmakers are engaged in;…
At its moment of most shine, CollegeHumor was perhaps the ubiquitous Internet content for a certain demo of Internet users. From the vantage of 2025,…
Genre fare has sunk to new depths with The Dead Thing, Elric Kane’s first solo-directed feature — and an enervating one at that. There’s a…
It’s a little hard to tell if Old Guy, a new thriller comedy about, well, an old guy who is also a hitman, is somehow…
You’ve got a really good cast doing sturdy, reliable work in an otherwise largely generic crime dramedy with Riff Raff, the latest from director Dito…
It’s difficult to know what to do with the films of Mickey Keating; finding success in low-budget indie filmmaking should always be applauded, but frequently…
Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark — director and famed producer of numerous classics, including but not limited to Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Zu:…
Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino has made, really, one kind of film for the majority of his career: decadent exercises in excess that observe the absurdity of…
Veteran action director Martin Campbell seems to be more prolific than ever these days, having just released his women-on-a-mission war film Dirty Angels a scant…
It’s entirely possible, even likely, that the person reading this review right now has never heard of Edward Burns, let alone seen any of his…
With his 2019 debut Saint Frances, Alex Thompson offered up a strong resume. It wasn’t a film that entirely worked, but it was rich in…
Universal Language opens on a static wide shot outside a French language school in snowy Winnipeg. We see the teacher grumpily trudge in late. Once…
Compared to its predecessor, 2017’s widely acclaimed Paddington 2, Paddington in Peru will feel to most a bit more like standard kiddie fare. Paddington 2…
The notion of “camera-consciousness” in the cinema is not, on the face of it, a terribly plausible idea. Apart from point-of-view shots, or extended experiments…
If there was reason to be cautiously optimistic about Universal’s remake of its horror franchise Wolf Man, it was the involvement of director Leigh Whannell.…
To director Tommaso Santambrogio, to tell a story about people, you ought to tell the story of the places they inhabit. That could be why…
Just barely after the advent of photography, the concept of putting a camera in a balloon was born. Taken long before commercial air travel, these…
Marcello Mio, probably the first movie to appear in Cannes competition with the word “nepo baby” in its script, is part of an increasing tendency…
From Ground Zero is an anthology of 22 stories from Gaza curated by Rashid Masharawi. The shorts range from straightforward documentations of daily life under…
Den of Thieves, 2018’s Dad Movie par excellence, came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of brows high, low, and middle with equal appeal.…