What becomes quickly apparent when diving into Izabel Pakzad’s directorial debut Find Your Friends is that by basically every metric you might generally judge a…
Given their inherently terrifying nature, it’s a wonder that killer cephalopods are not allotted much space in terms of cinematic appreciation. From their billowy, spectral…
The latest installment of Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard’s epic-length project Castration Movie is a departure in a few ways. For one thing, Part iii.ii, or…
Social realism and soap opera generally have more in common than the po-faced occupiers of your local arthouse would like you to believe. Every time…
Any casual viewer of arthouse cinema from the past decade is likely to experience immediate déjà vu upon sitting down to watch Savage House: what does…
The great Malcolm D. Lee’s new Peacock streamer Strung opens with an arresting scene of Laila Calloway (the potentially computer-animated actor and popstar Chloe Bailey),…
It’s a strange position Eric André finds himself in. For a few years, he was the great hope for a fringe oddball to slip into…
Ryuya Suzuki’s Jinsei is clearly a labor of love. Completed over an 18-month period, Suzuki wrote, directed, hand-drew, and scored the film, his feature debut,…
In an early scene in Igarashi Kohei’s Super Happy Forever, Sano (Hiroki Sano) confronts a child on the beach. It’s a scene that feels devoid…
Couture’s scenario reads like something straight out of the 1950s. Three women — an ingenue model from a humble background, a struggling makeup artist with…
The nexus of trite and thesis-like is where Lilian T. Mehrel’s Honeyjoon coalesces; a light, personal rumination on the shared experience of grieving, Mehrel’s easygoing…
One of the funny little indignities of life is that as men hit their 50s, reaching a stage when many are arguably at their peak…
In 2017’s Summer 1993, director Carla Simón’s feature debut, a young girl is sent to live with her mother’s family in Barcelona after her mother’s…
In his trilogy of novels about the adolescence and adulthood of a young man closely modeled on himself, Edmund White distilled the essence of what…
Immediately obvious in Supergirl is that it seems determined not to be seen as merely a sequel to, or a full spinoff of, James Gunn’s…
There’s no place like home. For Joe (Seth Rogen), home has metastasized into such a calamity that it’s all he can think about when he’s…
Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave swiftly announces itself as a musico-political spectacle. Music as activism, activism as music, but mostly — and sorely — musical activism.…
We’ve had plenty of animal attack movies over the years. Of course, Jaws is the granddaddy of killer sharks, spawning dozens of knockoffs of all…
Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…
Bouchra, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s unusual, surprising, and often moving debut feature, centers on the relationship between its eponymous character, a queer Moroccan filmmaker…
Filmmaker Julian Schnabel returns to a familiar topic with his In the Hand of Dante… sort of. The painter-turned-acclaimed filmmaker has dedicated most of his…