On the most basic level, Graham Swon’s second feature, An Evening Song (for three voices), could be called a pre-war domestic melodrama, a gothic mystery,…
History — personal, political, and its inseparable intertwinement — is, perhaps, most truthfully realized when vividly expressed, not just recorded. Documentarian greats like Ken Burns…
There’s a deadpan finality in the titular utterance of Iair Said’s first fiction feature, a contrived despondency passing off as statistical fact. In Most People…
Asog’s ambitions are endless and anxious. The movie, crafted by Filipino-Canadian comedian and director Sean Devlin, is a gutsy dyad of narrative and documentary work…
In a movie titled A Normal Family, one thing can be certain: the family is obligated to abnormality. Hur Jin-ho’s newest film, an adaptation of…
If the new indie neo-noir Gazer feels familiar, riffing on any number of classic thrillers as well as newer models like Memento and Too Late,…
More than ever, questions of form and the constitution of cinema swirl, boundaries challenged or collapsing regularly in a present where visual media is dominated…
Over the past few years, much has been written about the undeniable wave of “Covid films,” narratives molded by lockdowns, themes shaped by isolation, and…
Michael Townsend, the Rhode Island artist at the center of Jeremy Workman’s documentary Secret Mall Apartment, knows that taking up space is a political act.…
Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky’s debut feature Rats! is a bit impossible to describe. There’s a story in there, somewhere, involving nuclear weapons, missing “hans”…
In his recent book Filmmakers Thinking, Adrian Martin quotes the German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky at length regarding the “dialogues” that all filmmakers are engaged in;…
It’s entirely possible, even likely, that the person reading this review right now has never heard of Edward Burns, let alone seen any of his…
“You’re safe. You’re totally safe,” says Terry Masear to a small hummingbird named Wasabi in the opening moments of Every Little Thing. The documentary, directed…
Watching Disfluency feels a bit like being guided through a museum exhibit by a tour guide who won’t stop talking. There’s promising art to behold…
Admittedly light on story, Rose, a directorial debut from actress Aurélie Saada, is more of a cultural celebration than the straightforward story of aging sexuality…
As of the publication of this review, there are 119 Letterboxd reviews logged for Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature The Taste of Mango. In one capsule…
Set in 1992 Peru, Reinas follows Carlos (Gonzalo Molina), a father reconnecting with his daughters Aurora (Luana Vega) and Lucía (Abril Gjurinovic) in the weeks…
Some movies are so bad that you stop watching them. Life is too short to endure consumerist rubbish that affronts art. Other movies are so…
It’s a bold strategy, especially today, to go courting favor for a reactionary, conspiracy-minded, sexually repressed young man. Set aside the recent Presidential election results,…
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is as ambitious an archival documentary as its name would suggest, examining the ways in which American bebop and swing…