Despite many noble dead on the field, the battle to prohibit video games from the hall of art has long since failed. The temple…
Contemporary indie cinema may lack in quality, but it absolutely does not lack in the quantity of up-and-coming filmmakers majorly taking inspiration from the…
Snow White was always inevitable. Joining the ranks of recent live-action adaptations such as The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and this summer’s upcoming…
In the sci-fi-horror film Ash, an ethnically and geographically diverse group of astronauts is dispatched to the farthest corners of the galaxy as Earth’s…
In this day and age of IP-driven slopbusters, any film that dares to respond to a pre-existing intellectual property is worthy. Responding requires the…
Wrapped up in the question of what it means to be a good parent is the more loaded question of what it means to…
Michael Townsend, the Rhode Island artist at the center of Jeremy Workman’s documentary Secret Mall Apartment, knows that taking up space is a political…
Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia begins, as so many stories do, with a homecoming. When first introduced, 30-something Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) is driving to his rural…
Jonathan Majors is poised to become a household name this year, with high-profile roles in upcoming installments of the MCU and extended Rocky franchises…
As Shadow of a Doubt opens, Joseph Cotton’s uncle Charlie is running away from the police. He has been lying down in his cheap…
Nominated for five Academy Awards, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has been one of the most talked about movies of the past year. Since its…
In his expansive body of work as a playwright, Harold Pinter dissected the language of power with a scalpel. Characters speak in clipped, ambiguous…
Desert of Namibia At first, Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert of Namibia seems to be just another entry in what this writer is calling Millennium Mambo-core,…
Zodiac Killer Project is, put simply, a strange undertaking. Charlie Shackleton’s expansively stripped-down documentary emerged from a thwarted attempt to adapt Lyndon E. Lafferty’s…
The best of the experimental film programming at the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look 2025 is actually found outside the program specifically…
Brigid McCaffrey’s debut feature plays very much like a pleasant walk in the woods. One is surrounded by the hazy glint of sunlight on…
There’s an opaque yet stern quality to Kaloyan (Ognyan “Fyre” Pavlov), a heavily tattooed young man returning to his small Bulgarian hometown after many…
Director Craig Johnson has worked with alums of Saturday Night Live before: His 2014 film The Skeleton Twins featured nuanced leading performances from Kristen…