It’s not uncommon for an international film to obtain a different name in English-speaking markets, and that ends up being the case with Little Trouble…
Tamara Kotevska’s The Tale of Silyan begins with a recounting of an old Macedonian fable. Young Silyan, tired of backbreaking labor on the family farm,…
With an education system as corrupt and ineffectual as that of the United States, stories of real teachers making a genuine difference are few and…
Early on in Under the Flags, the Sun, a banner hoisted by loyalists to Paraguayan dictator General Alfredo Stroessner reads, “The 20th century, with God…
Society has always had something of a morbid curiosity with true crime. From Jack the Ripper and In Cold Blood to the near-constant stream of…
For surefire entertainment, the “one crazy day” subgenre is a reliable standby, cramming people, places, and things into an eventful 24 hours of incident. It’s…
Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, captures…
Fire of Wind is the surreal debut feature from Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, which opens presumably in the present, as workers pick grapes in the…
Hurricanes are part of life in South Florida, a season in the calendar as ubiquitous as Summer and Fall; there’s even a rhyme for them,…
Given the technical and sociological advancements of the 21st century, countless heretofore unimaginable professions have emerged, especially those focused on relationships and intimacy. One can…
As Solvent commences, we’re dropped into a GoPro’s eye view on the setup of Gunner S. Holbrook (voiced by Jon Gries) and his private recovery…
Crispin Glover has long been a fixture of eccentricity and intrigue in Hollywood, carving out a niche for himself with a career — and personal…
The “theatre kids” of the world, spurred on by the renewed cultural phenomenon of Wicked, a spate of TikTok parody musicals amidst pandemic-era social distancing,…
If it ever gets proper distribution, Zoe Eisenberg’s new romantic drama Chaperone will surely generate several cycles of enervating discourse on Twitter; it’s rare that…
It takes a few minutes to realize that there hasn’t been a single edit in Hugo Ruíz’s new film, One Night With Adela, and then…
What really is the Circle of Life for people (and animals) not comfortably positioned inside the perfectly calibrated version of Disneyland? Do the laws and…
While hardly the first to do it, Richard Linklater’s masterful execution of the walk-and-talk two-hander with 1995’s Before Sunrise ushered in a wave of similarly…
There’s a certain futility to any critical appraisal of a film like Jim Hosking’s third feature, Ebony & Ivory. That’s not to say there’s a…
Alexandra Simpson’s debut feature, No Sleep Till, is hardly a typical disaster movie. There’s no panicked fleeing, no looting, no screaming and crying. Her approach…
What can we understand as agency, for individuals placed into contexts that are fabricated in dehumanizing forms? How does the capacity for someone to willfully…