What else is possibly left to say about the Fast & Furiouses? Fans excitedly devour each new installment with an oxymoronic combination of total earnestness…
Aside from Tom Hanks, it’s hard to think of an actor more beloved and respected by both the general public and his fellow peers than…
Giving Birth to a Butterfly, the feature-length debut from director/co-writer Theodore Schaefer, opens with a middle-aged woman laying out two seemingly identical christening gowns, preparing…
It’s a film like Monica that offers you space to question the legitimacy of our major film festivals’ competition branches, a film where only industrial…
Love Again sounds like a title where novelty goes to die, and the resulting film certainly does nothing to deviate from such lowered expectations, even…
A wonderfully realized portrait of the alienation experienced by both a mother and her child, Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese’s brilliantly colorful and touching L’Immensita revels…
Writer-director Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl opens with 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) dancing with her church’s worship troupe. It’s clear that dancing brings Jem…
A scattershot commentary on the film industry from writer-director-star Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the kindest thing one can say about Fool’s Paradise…
Tucked deep in the uncanny valley of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, is a street of towering, decaying Dutch Elm trees. Probe deeper, and beneath the tarmac…
What if you mixed Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure with a little bit of Inception and topped it off with a dash of Firestarter? Sounds pretty good,…
Since its launch in November 2019 — fortuitous timing for a streaming service to enter the public sphere — Disney+ has padded its subscriber base…
When VEEP aired on HBO eleven years ago, it seemed easy to call it a vicious political satire. The show was at its best when…
In the wake of the mass protests that raged throughout Hong Kong for much of 2019 and the first half of last year, the 2021…
Just in time for Mother’s Day comes The Mother, a heartwarming tale of familial love courtesy of Netflix that opens with our titular heroine (Jennifer…
Inescapable during the ‘90s and ‘00s yet rendered near instantly obsolete by the iPhone and its assorted imitators, the BlackBerry smartphone feels less like a…
Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta come from very different artistic backgrounds, but that fact wouldn’t be obvious based on their two collaborations to date, Once…
Actress-turned-director Manuela Martelli’s debut feature, Chile ’76, is a thriller built upon the expectations of upper-class marital melodrama. Carmen (a subtle but strong Aline Küppenheim)…
A plaintive, largely melancholic coming-of-age story, writer-director-editor Anthony Shim documents his childhood as a Korean immigrant in 1990s Canada in the intermittently cloying but mostly…
In discussing what constitutes homophobia, queer theorist Eve Sedgwick posits that “the number of persons or institutions by whom the existence of gay people is…
There’s been no shortage of lamentation here at InRO about how the contemporary Hollywood studio system has mostly abandoned mid-range, mid-budget action movies in favor…