Will Poulter’s course has been an unconventional one fo tollow. Breaking through in the UK when still a teen with sketch show School of Comedy…
The decadent luxury and moral rot of extreme wealth; a location as isolated as it is idyllic; lithe young bodies glistening in sunlight; the churning…
Dedicating more attention to the practicalities and criminal underbelly of the farm-to-table honey industry than certainly any fiction film before it, Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals…
Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature, Jimmy, though it follows James Baldwin at a pivotal moment in his life, cannot be accurately called a biopic. Rather, in its…
Does ill-discipline equal rebelliousness? If so, then Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella is already one of the best films of the year. Cavalli, who…
In February 2023, when the world was shaking off COVID-induced anxiety around confined spaces and returning to schools, offices, and restaurants in droves, New Yorkers…
There’s a lot to take from A Sad and Beautiful World, the feature debut from documentarian Cyris Aris, ostensibly a straight-faced drama of love in…
Just as Saltburn cemented the shtick of class satire onto its eye-watering Pinterest moodboards, Karim Aïnouz’s curiously engaging take on the hollow sex lives of…
If you have ever had a chance to see Hadestown live, you won’t wonder at its success, running on Broadway for seven years now despite…
Billionaires are a funny breed. A hardworking and often altruistic bunch, they nevertheless carry the scarlet letter of corruption wherever they go: they may do…
The 1987 release of La Bamba, Luis Valdez’s biopic detailing the life of Chicano musician Ritchie Valens, set a cinematic benchmark. On its face, La…
Sympathetic portrayals of kids who’ve fallen into a life of crime have been commonplace in the arthouse circuit since at least the days of Italian…
One of the hardest things to pull off in comedy is having characters who are knowingly foolish without also dragging the film around them into…
Any casual viewer of arthouse cinema from the past decade is likely to experience immediate déjà vu upon sitting down to watch Savage House: what does…
Ryuya Suzuki’s Jinsei is clearly a labor of love. Completed over an 18-month period, Suzuki wrote, directed, hand-drew, and scored the film, his feature debut,…
In 2017’s Summer 1993, director Carla Simón’s feature debut, a young girl is sent to live with her mother’s family in Barcelona after her mother’s…
Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave swiftly announces itself as a musico-political spectacle. Music as activism, activism as music, but mostly — and sorely — musical activism.…
Bouchra, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s unusual, surprising, and often moving debut feature, centers on the relationship between its eponymous character, a queer Moroccan filmmaker…
On its surface, Haifa al-Mansour’s Unidentified is a crime thriller that follows a recent divorcee, Nawal (Mila Al Zahrani), as her true crime obsession emboldens…
John Early is a tightrope artist. There’s little about his debut feature, Maddie’s Secret, that should work. With the DNA of a comedy sketch, Maddie’s…
Girls Like Girls is gay, and (mostly) proud of it. The film is Hayley Kiyoko’s adaptation of her novel of the same title, which was…