It might seem trite to begin a film review with a quote, but we live in a world of clichés and can only outrun…
Anime has always been more inclined toward YA-facing and -reflecting projects than most other film genres, perhaps only rivaled by the short-lived post-Harry Potter…
There’s been a recent trend of revisiting the makings of great Hollywood classics, and with her new documentary — Desperate Souls, Dark City and…
Grief, guilt, and superstition slowly wreak havoc on the mind of a recent father, as he grapples with the death of a former lover.…
While technically a “Covid film,” shot on weekends with friends and family during the first wave of lockdowns in early 2020, Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s…
Suicide narratives are dominated by two extremes: the undermined sense that all knowledge about the person who has died is now a hopelessly incomplete,…
Users, Natalia Almada’s new essayistic documentary, is a text at war with itself, equal parts poetic rumination on the place of modern technology in…
The challenge of representing larger-than-life figures is that it can be hard to fit them in frame. But what about figures who abstain from…
There’s the kernel of a fascinating Frankenstein adaptation at the center of Bomani J. Story’s directorial debut, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster.…
David Lynch, a filmmaker with an oeuvre so inimitable and a style so recognizable that he is one of a handful of directors whose…
One of the most harrowing legacies of Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government had nothing to do with economics, labor unions, or privatization. Instead, Section 28…
Part coming-of-age tale, part ghost story, Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake stands out among its “teenager finds himself over the course of an idyllic…
With Past Lives, director Celine Song has a fine story on her hands — and she knows it. A decade after immigrating with her…
The central message behind Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign in 1982 was this: if an individual could say no to drugs, there were…
In most movies, nature is portrayed as a still image, a landscape painting shown twenty-four times per second whose every detail is within God’s…
It’s a film like Monica that offers you space to question the legitimacy of our major film festivals’ competition branches, a film where only…
A wonderfully realized portrait of the alienation experienced by both a mother and her child, Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese’s brilliantly colorful and touching L’Immensita…
Writer-director Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl opens with 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) dancing with her church’s worship troupe. It’s clear that dancing brings…