Tranquility is a relative concept — inside a prison, one of the most stressful situations known to man, even the white-knuckle pressures of a…
Most viewers, though not equipped to discern the problematics of representing indigenous communities they aren’t part of, are still able to quite meaningfully evaluate…
The Fabelmans feels emotionally raw like little else Spielberg has made. Damn near every Steven Spielberg movie, in one sense or another, is about…
Strange World is a film without an audience, too dull for kids and too heavy-handed in its tired messaging for any accompanying adults. Disney’s newest…
There There executes a rather ingenious approach to the Covid shoot and delivers another win for Bujalski. Over the last few years, Andrew Bujalski’s career…
Bones and All isn’t successful across the board, but it thankfully prioritizes Guadagnino’s strengths and results in arguably his finest film. Nearly six years out…
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are no strangers to giving beloved characters the coming-of-age treatment, having previously created the teenage years for none other…
Basketball isn’t like other sports. Certainly not any that Jon Bois and co-writer Alex Rubenstein have covered before, which may go a ways in…
She Said lends no depth to its leads and is an aesthetically anonymous work that fails to justify the big screen treatment. It has…
Leonor Will Never Die is a sweetly thoughtful drama disguised as loving genre throwback, with perhaps a pinch of cannier discourse creeping beneath its…
Anyone who has seen enough music documentaries probably has a pretty good idea of what The Return of Tanya Tucker would be before going…
The Salem witch trials are a historical event rife with modern retellings and reimaginings, from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its various screen and…
Diana Bustamante’s Our Movie casts a peculiar spell; an essayistic documentary of sorts, it’s constructed entirely out of archival Columbian broadcast news footage from…
In Wisdom Gone Wild, Rea Tajiri returns to the subject of one of her earliest and best-known works: her mother. That earlier work, History…
Wisdom Gone Wild In Wisdom Gone Wild, Rea Tajiri returns to the subject of one of her earliest and best-known works: her mother. That…
When Malcolm X, the epic biographical drama about the titular civil rights figure, hit theaters in November 1992, it came off the heels of…
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong The subtitle for Septet: The Story of Hong Kong isn’t an all that accurate reflection of the omnibus’s…
Bad Axe is a tender and heartfelt portrait of a family, town, and nation in crisis. In light of an unprecedented global vaccine effort,…