In the age of virality, who will remember the snuff film? 1978’s Faces of Death, a documentary-style gorefest, is the stuff of dorm-room legend. “They…
There are two — or if someone is feeling incredibly ambitious, 101 — films to review in Thierry Frémaux’s Lumière, Le Cinéma, a cine-documentary exclusively…
Kazuya Shiraishi’s Bushido is a fascinating clash of visual styles and familiar genre tropes rendered fresh via a strange, languid dramaturgy. Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) is a…
Against the notion of cinematic auteurism, it has sometimes been thought enough to respond that, after all, cinema is a collaborative medium to which certain…
Chaos reigns in Yasuhiro Aoki’s anarchic, wildly imaginative feature directorial debut ChaO, a whirlwind exploration of the breadth of storytelling potential in animated film. Almost…
Why 2025 was a year rich in films with purgatorial motifs — everything from Oliver Laxe’s Sirât to Alex Ullom’s It Ends — is a…
When is the ideal time to learn your significant other’s most shameful secret? The new comedy The Drama argues the best time is “never” and…
Living in Brazil in a post-Bolsonaro world clearly feels dystopian to director Gabriel Mascaro, who has now made two consecutive films about a near-future where…
I watched two films from IFFR’s 2025 festival: one was The Last Dance, the smash hit Hong Kong family melodrama set in the world of…
The Super Mario Galaxy movie, a further collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Studios, after 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is bound to be another…
Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz are a fascinating couple, and Jacob Permutter and Manon Ouimet’s new film about their marriage, Two Strangers Trying Not to…
“Listen Mr. Mersault, You’re not the first nor last to kill an Arab. You won’t be faulted for that. Trust me, I know the French…
The premise for Forbidden Fruits hints at escalating acts of witchcraft driven by an all-female coven, while marketing materials are quick to push the involvement…
If one recently saw Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which featured Satanic cult members out to murder a young woman who was trying…
Julian of Norwich was a religious mystic and anchoress in the Middle Ages. After a grave illness during which she experienced visions of Christ on…
Balthazar — or Balthy, as he would be to his friends, if he had any — is a bright kid. But when your family’s rich…
Documentarian Angelo Madsen, in his new documentary of BDSM performance artist Fakir Musafar, captured a tension at the heart of Musafar’s philosophy within the film’s…
The time travel mob comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice opens with the actor Ben Schwartz singing a foul-mouthed rendition of the Billy…
As loglines go, a Chloë Sevigny-narrated, archive-heavy documentary about an infamous, largely discredited dolphin scientist has a kind of whimsical ring to it. And indeed,…
As of this writing, filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay turned 21 less than a week ago. She has also just premiered her sixth feature length film…
Marc Jacobs is everywhere. In Marc by Sofia — the Sofia of the title being Coppola — the Lost in Translation director makes a case…