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 animated…
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 trajectory…
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 from…
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 than…
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 explaining…
She Said lends no depth to its leads and is an aesthetically anonymous work that fails to justify the big screen treatment. It has been…
Leonor Will Never Die is a sweetly thoughtful drama disguised as loving genre throwback, with perhaps a pinch of cannier discourse creeping beneath its surface.…
Anyone who has seen enough music documentaries probably has a pretty good idea of what The Return of Tanya Tucker would be before going in…
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 stage…
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 (roughly)…
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 and…
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 earlier…
When Malcolm X, the epic biographical drama about the titular civil rights figure, hit theaters in November 1992, it came off the heels of a…
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 breadth:…
Bad Axe is a tender and heartfelt portrait of a family, town, and nation in crisis. In light of an unprecedented global vaccine effort, the…
Story of a Mouse is unsurprisingly beholden to a certain vein of hagiography, but it’s also compellingly as racked with contradictions as its titular subject.…
Even given its obvious vanity vehicle motivations, Poker Face is a dire affair. Russell Crowe returns to the director’s chair for Poker Face, an unwieldy, overstuffed,…
The subtitle for Septet: The Story of Hong Kong isn’t an all that accurate reflection of the omnibus’s breadth: These seven short films do span…
Writer/director Wai Ka-fai is likely best known in the West for his collaborations with Johnnie To and their Milkyway Image production house (which the duo…
Lost Bullet 2 is hands down one of the best actioners of the year. With the avalanche of movies and television thrust upon increasingly weary viewers…