The Northman is a brutal and beautiful bit of mythic spectacle, but can still sometimes feel restrained despite its outsized production. Gather round: it’s time…
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a bold, terrifying portrait of the Internet’s isolation/connection dichotomy. There’s something bracing about encountering a genuine oddity…
A deeply spiritual, even existential, odyssey that mingles numerous contradictory forces into a striking whole, The Tale of King Crab is certain to be remembered…
The Cellar is far too bogged down in the why of its haunted house conceit, deferring thrills in its dull march to an inevitable conclusion. Brendan Muldowney’s…
Navalny is a valuable film in our age of geopolitical misinformation, but also skews toward hagiography and relies too heavily on an info-dump style format.…
Aline is an undeniably singular film, but its eccentricities are mostly gloss on an overly-familiar biopic template. The new musical drama Aline is officially described…
Poppy Field carries the veneer of importance but isn’t much more than a series of lazy ironies, a shallow character study in need of a…
Ambulance is pure action mastery and Michael Bay’s best film in 20 years. Let’s just get this out of the way up front: you’re not…
Metal Lords blunders plenty, but its blend of heavy metal and heavy feels makes for an imperfect but heartfelt affair. New Netflix film Metal Lords…
Despite its workaday subject matter, Cow is still recognizably an Andrea Arnold film, mostly for the better. Depending on your perspective — and depending…
Miryam Charles’ feature debut is a member of the final Talent to Watch cohort, prior to the industry intervention that would reshape it. Talent…
How exactly to represent historical atrocities on screen has been an overriding ethical and formal concern for filmmakers for almost as long as the…
All the Old Knives is a DOA old-school espionage thriller that only succeeds in proving how wasted Chris Pine is. Sporting quite possibly one of…
Geographies of Solitude Sable Island, the crescent-shaped sandbar located in the North Atlantic Ocean, is the site of Jacquelyn Mills’ debut feature film Geographies of Solitude.…
The Girl and the Spider is a bit of a symphony of sights and sounds that occasionally plays like too much of a recapitulation of…
Midnight is a solid piece of horror escapism, but suffers from a tendency toward familiar narrative and psychological shortcuts. Kwon Oh-seung’s debut feature Midnight is…
A-ha: the Movie is a pure trifle, not always substantial but capable of casting viewers back into a distinctly ’80s mood. Before childhood friends…
Beginning life as a multimedia installation mixing sculpture, film, and paper archival documents, Éric Baudelaire’s When There Is No More Music to Write project…