Married directorial pair Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have consistently risked being hit by the type of criticism that considers “postmodernism” a dirty word. Many…
Julia Jackman’s sophomore feature 100 Nights of Hero, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel of the same name, has the shape and tone of a…
With all the upheaval in recent years, it seems like there is only one constant across the film industry: producing an independent animated feature is…
Action films might be the closest argument we still have for cinema as a universal language. It’s the most exportable genre, with stars and filmmakers…
2024 has shaped up to be a boon year for DIY cinema, with achievements like Hundreds of Beavers and The People’s Joker emerging as critical…
The year 2000 was a typically busy year for typically prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who released legal biopic Erin Brockovich and hyperlink crime drama Traffic…
Shrouded in painterly dimness, Lotfy Nathan’s The Carpenter’s Son opens with a scene of the Nativity, wrought with bleak naturalism: a boy is born to…
The cabin in the woods: as reliable a setup as there is in all of horror. The isolation of new lovers leaving the world and…
Karim Leklou has a fascinating face, a seemingly unremarkable assemblage of features that acts like a blank slate; it’s a Kuleshov-effect visage. Director Clément Cogitore…
While Taiwanese arthouse films have been regulars on the international festival circuit since the breakthroughs of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and the rest of the…
Exactly how does one go about commencing a review for something titled Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc? Some useful context is in order:…
It’s been a quarter century since The Blair Witch Project first terrorized unsuspecting audiences. In the ensuing years, it’s been difficult to find much innovation…
Film critics have it easy. Without undergoing the physical, financial, and years-long struggle of producing a feature film themselves, they’re blessed with the privilege of…
To follow in any well-known filmmaker’s footsteps is a tall order. To not only follow one of the most popular and acclaimed horror directors of…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: If you die in your dream, you die for real. Scott Derrickson’s burgeoning Black Phone series is…
Needless to say, deliberately titling your film Bone Lake will automatically trigger suggestive connotations about the film’s potential content. Will the feature consist of a…
Vijay Sethupathi is certainly the most versatile and interesting, not to mention basely pleasurable, “superstar” still kicking in the world cinema. His early performances for…
After the massive success of John Milius’ Conan the Barbarian in 1982, an avalanche of cheap sword-and-sorcery pictures flowed forth, eager to cash in on…
Following Steven Soderbergh’s Presence earlier in the year, Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy is the second 2025 film to hang its haunted house conceit on a…
The Strangers – Chapter 2 (directed by Renny Harlin) occurs in the immediate aftermath of the carnage of Chapter 1. The incredibly concise narrative timeline…