The Swimmer is yet another skin-thin film about gay men that is unfortunately more interested in titillation than characterization. The Israeli gay coming-of-age drama The Swimmer…
Onoda documents how the collapse of one’s worldview can prove as wrenching as any of the violence here depicted, and reminds that cinema is an inescapably…
Moonage Daydream is a joyous, eccentric, and experimental documentary that should please Bowie fanatics, glam rock die-hards, and adventurous cinephiles in equal measure. If one were…
Taming the Garden is a beautiful and brutal work, Jashi both in awe of the work her camera captures and aware of its destructive nature. Salomé…
Grand Jeté is a gorgeous film to behold, but its visual design is unfortunately in service of material that’s too one-note and depthless to actually…
The Justice of Bunny King struggles with tonal missteps throughout, but rallies for an enthralling third act that unveils new layers of ambiguity. Who exactly is…
Petrov’s Flu is an entirely maximalist formal exercise, one boasting a technical bravura that will impress as many as it puts off. A smoker’s cough that…
Casablanca Beats boasts some technical rap prowess, but its narrative fails to develop any depth and the film suffers from a banal and maudlin ending. Casablanca…
Confess, Fletch isn’t attempting much, but it lands as an amiable bit of diet-Soderbergh primed for a low-key weekend binge. We all complain about what movies…
The African Desperate is a fascinating, assured debut anchored by a star-making turn from Stingily and Syms’ confident formalism. The first few minutes of Martine Syms’ The African…
Riotsville, USA traces an alternate history on top of official record and crafts an incisive examination that is as hypnotic as it is fervent. It’s almost…
It can sometimes feel that Hold Me Tight coasts by on mood alone, but Amalric maximizes that mode, orchestrating his film’s disorienting tone with virtuosic…
Dos Estaciones is packed with precise images and lensed with beautiful attention to color and mise en scène, but it fails to satisfactorily develop its ideas.…
Funny Pages frequently approaches incisive commentary about youth’s quest for validation, but it ultimately ends too meekly and with too little introspection. Life comes at Robert,…
The farcical elements of The Good Boss amusingly build across its runtime, but by the end the film feels a bit too schematic and overly…
Breaking certainly tells a necessary story, but it largely boils itself down to basic action theatrics and undermines any noble intent. Breaking, the feature directorial…
Three Minutes can veer off course when it attempts to wax poetic or philosophical, but on the strength of its source material, ultimately proves an adept…
Spin Me Round, which bafflingly sidelines its most intriguing performer halfway through, ultimately offers little more than a light subversion of European vacay romcoms. Jeff…
Girl Picture is a pop-oriented confection of little substance, vapid writing, and seeming contempt for its characters. Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture is a confounding frustration. Set…
Summering is a clichéd and ludicrous attempt at the coming-of-age tale, both thematically and tonally inept. It’s been nearly a decade since writer-director James Ponsoldt…