Director July Jung’s first film, 2014’s A Girl at My Door, starred Bae Doona as a policewoman who gets transferred to a small fishing village…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that Celine…
To coin an adage, directing a Stephen King adaptation is like getting a tattoo: it’s difficult to stop at one. The only thing harder to…
It’s hard to pinpoint when Wes Anderson The Brand caught up with Wes Anderson The Director. It might have been some time around his spot…
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s new film can only be described as experimental. It doesn’t just explore the legacy of Martinican writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire, an intellectual whose ideas…
Grieving widow Kate Garrett (Julianne Moore) hides her struggles. She’s hard up financially, and relies on the dwindling generosity of her ex-husband, Richard (Kyle MacLachlan),…
Much has been made about the terror of the deep blue sea and its inhabitants, and the shark movie in particular is a genre unto…
What’s so titillating about Hong Kong? Certain cities have sex appeal, of course — it’s easier to imagine a ménage à trois in Paris than…
I Don’t Understand You, directed and written by married couple Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig, continually cashes in on the promise of its title.…
What Judaism has become in its projection into a popular culture is indisputably a messy construct, to speak in minimizing terms. Putting aside the immediacy…
Despite William Friedkin’s best efforts to shut the door on the subject over 50 years ago, religious horror tales of demonic possession persist, with many…
With an official title like From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, it seems like some kind of warning is being telegraphed. Spinning off one…
John Maclean’s first feature, the grimy, spare Western Slow West, established him as a clever manipulator of genre tropes, and capable of stretching a trim…
It’s somewhat fitting that Andrew Dominik’s second documentary subject, after multiple projects with English musician Nick Cave, is Bono. Cave and the U2 frontman certainly…
Most legacy sequels frustrate in their imprisonment to the original films. The character cameos, repeated iconic lines, and mystery linkages between the past and the…
War stains the soul. It can haunt its victims like a specter, and the appropriately titled Ghost Trail centers on a scarred man who hovers…
Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov has directed 15 films in the last 12 years, a breakneck pace to rival even Hong Sang-soo. Not many seem to…
Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are doled…
Do you have two hours to kill and enjoy, say, breezy, brazenly derivative adventure movies? Well then, buckle up, because your prime weekend streaming content…
Walt Disney Pictures is not well. It’s been a hot minute, hour, fortnight since the house that Walt built has delivered a legitimately impressive work…