Don’t Worry Darling fails to deliver even as much intrigue as its publicity tour, its shallow, ridiculous script resulting in a film that lands…
Lou proves to be a surprising and nostalgic actioner for its first half, but it utterly undone by an interminable second half beset by…
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…
Catherine Called Birdy features a pleasant, tuned-in script from Dunham, but the whole project is undermined by an unfortunate lack of aesthetic character. Her…
The Night is another minutiae-oriented short from Tsai, meaning found in the details of its mini symphony of Hong Kong. Following up, as it…
My Imaginary Country finds Guzmán contending with nostalgia for perhaps the first time, and the resultant film isn’t quite sure how to handle this…
The Banshees of Inisherin They aren’t having a row — Colm (Brendan Gleeson) just doesn’t feel like talking to his best friend Pádraic (Colin…
The well-intentioned On the Come Up wants to challenge audiences, but can’t overcome a wholly inauthentic and sanitized presentation of its material. After Rosie Thomas shot…
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…
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…
Hlynur Pálmason’s third feature, Godland, represents a massive leap in scale for the Icelandic director. Like his sophomore feature A White, White Day (2019),…
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a film as bifurcated as its title suggests: Documentarian Laura Poitras attempts to intercut a broad-ranging, linear…
Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan, like many movies of a similar ilk, has nothing but the best of intentions — though, that’s about all…
Dry Ground Burning Documentaries don’t get much more hybrid than Dry Ground Burning, the new film from Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta. It’s a…
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. …
A subgenre seems to be forming around Christopher Abbott. Coming to prominence working with the filmmakers of Borderline Films and starring in the first…
Returning this year for its fourth season is Bill Hader, Rhys Thomas, Seth Meyers, and Fred Armisen’s parody passion project, Documentary Now!, an anthology…
Winter Boy Those about to eulogize reach for poetry; for anyone, mourning periods commingle, confuse, and unpredictably change one’s experience of time. But in…