Writing about Valeska Grisebach’s The Dreamed Adventure, critic Ali Karimnia observes that it is “a cinema that, rather than telling us what the world is,…
It’s a sign of great writing when you can identify everything you love and hate about a character, but can’t decide whether you love or…
Marianne Elliott is an extraordinary theater director. Modernist and (tastefully) ostentatious in her staging, she never loses sight of the soft, squishy human heart at…
Crows Are White is sharpest when its images expose what director Ahsen Nadeem’s narration would prefer to soften. It is least convincing when, at the…
Love takes miles. In 1977, PK Mahanandia, a 23-year-old street artist living in Delhi, met the girl he was sure he was destined to marry.…
History has always been a dumping ground for those in power. It’s littered with, as the affectless narrator in Chris Marker’s 1983 cine-travelogue Sans Soleil…
A recurring image from Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares calls to mind John Ford. In The Searchers, the darkness that frames the bookend shots…
Alex Cox loves to make movies. He doesn’t get to do that very often these days, but when he does, they’re more likely than not…
Cinema has a unique capacity for depicting time, as we all know. But this plasticity — turning “time” into a physical ribbon of pictures and…
Seeing the new KATSEYE documentary in August of 2026 is a lot like seeing a brand new feature from a recently deceased actor. Between filming…
Marketed as “a Green Day comedy,” Lee Kirk’s newest film, Nimrods, could more fittingly be described as specious or surprisingly inept. Or, it could be…
American independent filmmaker and cinematographer Rob Tregenza broke onto the scene with 1988’s Talking to Strangers, a somewhat Jarmuschian dramedy that was notable for being…
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…