Actual People captures actual truths about the ways that young people behave. Kit Zauhar follows up her promising short film, Helicopter, with an equally talky debut…
DOC NYC is back. Boasting the tagline “America’s Largest Documentary Festival,” the renown is on the tin, but it’s nonetheless always a treat to comb…
My Father’s Dragon bears little of the depth or artistry that has made Cartoon Saloon features worthy of note in recently years. In The Secret of…
Wendell & Wild has evident ambition, but it’s ultimately far too small. Seemingly focus-tested for maximum appeal to parents who really, really miss Key & Peele,…
A Couple reflects a shift in Wiseman’s work, his fascination in institutional minutia pivoting to more transcendentalist territory, to moving effect. Performance — itself a…
The Wonder is undeniably lifted by the strength of its two leads and technical craft, despite a notable failure to satisfy all of Lelio’s ambitions. Rarely…
Nothing Lasts Forever is a zippy but patient task-taking doc on the ills, myths, and hypocrisies of the global diamond industry. In 1929, the Surrealist painter…
Wakanda Forever rises higher than your usual MCU product, but it’s a project that ultimately works better on paper than in execution. Everyone notes that…
Falling for Christmas isn’t rewriting the holiday rom-com rulebook, but it’s an appropriately cozy affair aided by appealing production design and an utterly charming Lohan.…
Salvatore is an undeniably pleasant and informative jaunt through fashion and film history, but a lack of balance and cohesion keep its ceiling low. Call it…
Causeway is a sturdy enough film with fine anchoring performances, but it doesn’t otherwise boast much in the way of substance. It’s been some time since…
Despite what the joint juggernaut of social media and trade journals would have you believe, fall festival season encompasses more than just the triumvirate of…
Any nerve-shredding tendencies present in Nocebo are punctured by its clunky exposition, predictable ending, and insistence on trite messaging. There are two kinds of clinical…
My Policeman is a beige, two-hour yawn that fails to live up to superior works occupying the same thematic space. Harry Styles kept finding himself in…
Armageddon Time is far from Gray’s best and can occasionally risk eye-roll liberal apologia, but the director is ultimately too smart a filmmaker to fully…
The Metamorphosis of Birds is a sensual and lyrical work that recalls the old masters even as it carves out its own distinct and pleasurable path. …
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is a squeamy good time, as inspired by nonsense sketch comedy as it is Cronenbergian body horror. Whatever…
Red looks like a One Piece film but doesn’t feel like one, lazily delivering franchise content without the emotional and visual force necessary to truly animate it. For…
Soft & Quiet doesn’t know what to do with its thorny subject matter and disturbing imagery, allowing it all to just linger on screen as wanton…
Missing sometimes suffers from unfocused digressions, but it mostly coheres well by the end and marks Katayama as a director to follow. Satoshi Harada (Jirô…