With Not Okay, Shephard succeeds at crafting an unlikable female protagonist that feels true to our world and a film unafraid to reflect that world…
Vengeance suggests plenty of potential in its genre-mixing premise, but frustratingly shakes out exactly as you’d expect at every turn. It feels like the idea…
Hansan features plenty rousing naval action, but also drags in its first half and too baldly leans on a propagandist view of history to establish its…
Inu-Oh Masaaki Yuasa simply can’t be stopped — or at least that’s what it has seemed like for the past two decades, during which the…
It goes without saying that Japanese anime is a permanent part of the international cinephilic sphere. There are many reasons why the appeal and success…
One of the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival’s archival presentations is the new restoration of Wong Jing’s 1982 film Mercenaries from Hong Kong. Already here at…
Mickey Reece’s Country Gold also stars the director as country music artist Troyal Brux (clearly modeled, at least visually, on Garth Brooks, whom Reece vaguely…
Yoon Seo-jin’s debut feature Chorokbam opens ominously. After an aging nightwatchman (Lee Tae-hoon) investigates the loud meowing he overhears, he makes a grisly discovery on…
Resurrection is a haunting work of psychological brutality, far superior to the metaphor-heavy trauma horror it’s being incorrectly lumped in with. Rebecca Hall has steadily amassed…
Sharp Stick is a more specific work than much of what Denham has produced in the last decade, but it’s hindered by an awkward, shaggy structure…
Though frequently overt in its commentary, Medusa still enthralls thanks to its formally and functionally immersive world-building. Set in an alternate Brazil where evangelical conservatism has all…
Ryan: I originally intended to open this second part of our correspondence with a scene I thought was in this stretch from episodes five to…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or…
Ali and Ava is a more formally restrained work for Barnard, but one imbued with limitless compassion and hardscrabble authenticity. Clio Barnard’s 2010 debut film…
Hypochondriac is but the latest elevated horror project to arrive, spinning its wheels for 90 minutes without anything new to say. Fans of elevated horror,…
Karmalink suffers from an inventive premise marred by uninspired execution and a lackadaisical rhythm. Jake Wachtel’s debut feature, on paper, ticks all the boxes, and then…
Accepted doesn’t always handle its myriad threads with equal deftness, but the film is movingly carried through on the strength of its individual stories and…
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…