Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke is a delight, a playful formalist in a sea of self-serious festival auteurs. But because comedy is often viewed askance by…
Turning 30 fucking sucks. Too old to be considered young, yet too young to have everything figured out (as if anyone ever really has it…
The patient sensibilities of Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing wouldn’t normally suggest a paranoid political thriller. And yet, his debut feature, with long takes evoking…
No Wave legend Beth B’s latest project, Glowing, is something like a short story cycle. Beth B previously made eight short works about friends and…
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, an entry in the PBS series American Masters directed by Sasha Waters (Gary Winogrand: All Things…
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…
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…
Stardom is a morbid enterprise, and the life of its luminaries always has a tacit alliance with their expiration date. Often, fame intensifies upon death,…
Before diving into any of the specific details of Citizen Vigilante, let’s get straight into what the film actually is: racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop…
Near the end of The Gas Station Attendant, filmmaker Karla Murthy admits that she is “stuck in a time loop” while she sifts through boxes…
Nestled in the rural midwestern town of Three Oaks, Michigan, the largest flag day parade in the nation is a surreal scene of unabashed Americana,…
For Tim Geraghty and Sarah Halpern, the process of making Monument, a, well, monumental four-and-a-half-hour experimental documentary that’s ostensibly about the diminutive but shockingly consequential…
When a documentary’s primary source material and subject of inquiry is revealed to be vlog content, YouTube channels, and other ephemera of pre- and early-aughts…
No civilization without land was the starting point of Carl Schmitt’s definition of the nomos — the measure by which land “in a particular order…
The starting point for anything one might observe about the nature of money in the world today needs run, if one is to be sensible,…
Inside a brightly lit Dunkin’ Donuts, Tyler, a construction worker, meets another, Widgey, who is about to hire him for a home renovation job. Tyler…
Don Hardy’s career as a documentary filmmaker has spanned an eclectic range of themes that are bound, in some way, by an interest in mystery,…
The trouble with effective satire is that sometimes the original mark already exists in such a heightened state that any attempts to ridicule, undermine, or…
“You sound cool talking out your ass,” Bruce (Anthony Oberbeck) quips to his best friend and roommate, Simon (newcomer Tristan Turner), a struggling filmmaker. In…
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…
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…