Alone Together is but the latest reminder that Covid-inspired relationship tales reached their expiration date long ago. Relationship dramas revolving around the Covid pandemic and…
Mr. Malcolm’s List isn’t the most chemistry-rich Regency rom-com to come along, but its modern undertones and strong ensemble work make it a recommendable entry…
The Road to Galena delivers little more than reductive bumpkin caricatures and well-trod narrative arcs. The Road to Galena, the feature debut from writer-director Joe…
Blue Island is a similarly interrogative work to the director’s Yellowing, but here taking on a grander and more experimental form. Chan Tze-woon’s Yellowing was…
Swallowed Things have been building to this moment for a while, but ever since films like Julia Ducournau’s Raw crossed over to find a mainstream…
In some respects, My Small Land is a film about easily perceived material differences. Sarya (Lina Arashi) holds herself at a distance from others; she…
Daigo Matsui’s Just Remembering features two characters who love Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. At least, they love the first section and, specifically, Winona Ryder’s…
Things have been building to this moment for a while, but ever since films like Julia Ducournau’s Raw crossed over to find a mainstream audience…
The American cinema of the 1970s is a deep, deep well of intersecting delusion and pyrrhic victories, though hindsight has made it so that’s it…
We Met in Virtual Reality is a formally fascinating and emotionally rich documentary that proves far more humanist than its tech-centric tagline might suggest. Joe…
A Love Song has a rustic, unadorned quality that is easy to appreciate, but its calculated modesty only does so much to distinguish it from…
For a brief period of time in the early-to-mid 2000s, there was perhaps no more exciting international director than Bela Tarr. Advocates like Jonathan Rosenbaum,…
The Nan Movie aspires to recreate old sensations, but spills out as a shadow of its former self. Whither, the British comedy? Once, this land…
My Donkey, My Lover & I might trade too liberally in cliché, but its escapist texture, palpable charm, and refusal to give in to sexist…
The Gray Man is an unforgivably bland and phoned-in actioner defined by digital smearing and toothless character work. It’s a little disingenuous to describe a $200…
The Mole Song: Final The Mole Song: Final is the third and, well, final part of Takashi Miike’s Mole Song series about an undercover cop…
A dark night of the soul that gradually metastasizes into a howl of impotent anger at life itself, Mitchell Stafiej’s The Diabetic follows 30-something Alek…
The Mole Song: Final is the third and, well, final part of Takashi Miike’s Mole Song series about an undercover cop infiltrating the yakuza. It…
Though its thematic threads begin to fray, Moloch remains a tantalizing evocation in primal fear that explores the allure behind myth and symbol. Idolatry has remained a…
The Killer is a shallow retread of already shallow ground and sunk by the blank slate of a “hero” at its core. As he did in…