Unfolded in twelve chapters and split into two parts, Trenque Lauquen includes across its 250-minute runtime a story of a missing woman possibly gone mad,…
Documentaries don’t get much more hybrid than Dry Ground Burning, the new film from Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta. It’s a film about a gang…
As its title would have it, Plan 75 has a broad purview over the implementation and implications of its alternate, not-too-distant future. In this future,…
After Jerry Seinfeld and his “What’s the deal?” color commentary on the silliness of the quotidian struck gold in Seinfeld, comedians started to habitually appear…
The stepmother is typically an outsider role in literature. Not so in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children. Adapted from Romain Gary’s novel, Your Ticket Is…
A beguiling amalgam of classic opera sensibility, modern dance performance, and Badlands-esque, lovers-on-the-run romantic tragedy, Benjamin Millepied’s Carmen is a deeply idiosyncratic and electrifying film…
In July 2020, The New York Times published an article by composer and music composition professor Marcos Balter that criticized the notion of calling Joseph…
Art is subjective, as is the concept of firsts. Hilma af Klint can be classed as the first abstract painter, years before the more widely…
Little Richard, born Richard Wayne Penniman, is a complicated figure in rock ‘n’ roll history not just because of the way his legacy as perhaps…
Everybody knows a low-stakes liar. Whether it’s Instagram exaggerations or anecdotes reconfigured to place themselves as the hero, this kind of one-upmanship is practically currency…
The first thing one is likely to notice about Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is how ugly its characters look. Their eyes are empty of that…
It’s perhaps unfair to say that divorce dramas have had too great a resurgence in recent years. The genre is by its nature a prime,…
Religious iconography and the unofficial symbols of nationalism, when not one and the same, serve a similar purpose. A vehicle, a symbol of salvation if…
In case you couldn’t tell from the big goofy afro, pleasant demeanor, and paintbrush, the character of Carl Nargle in Brit Mcadams’ Paint, played by…
Saint-Narcisse isn’t LaBruce’s most audacious film, but it reflects a new, thoughtful instance of his particular audacity. There is surely more space in Hollywood for queer…
“Adapted” from Andreas Malm’s 2021 climate change manifesto of the same name, Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline shoots out of the gate…
Giraffe is often beautiful, but strikes an imbalance between its form and its flagging emotional core. Frequently beautiful but frustratingly opaque, Anna Sofia Hartmann’s Giraffe plays…
Once in a while, a debut film comes along that announces the arrival of a potentially major new talent. A.V. Rockwell’s freshmanfeature, the Teyana Taylor-starring…
In Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men, the unnamed protagonist (Mary Woodvine, in a role mysteriously dubbed “The Volunteer”) sets out on a mundane, quietly transfixing routine.…
An overhead shot tracks a car’s snaking glide down a mountain road as a turquoise lake looms below. Credits appear, and the score begins to…