Anytime Park Chan-wook makes a movie, it’s an event. One of the most exciting and formally striking auteurs to hail from South Korea —…
In the annals of very real films that sound like they should be 30 Rock jokes, a feature-length documentary on the life of mega-producer and…
Blink, the new film from the team behind 2022 Oscar-winner Navalny, justifies its existence from the start; a documentary about children losing their vision…
Some say the banners of John Talbot flutter still, upon the fields of Castillon. But you did not stay to witness them. Honorable demise…
Eephus At first, Eephus holds the potential to make one quite sad. For this writer, the effect did not seem intentional and was more…
At first, Eephus holds the potential to make one quite sad. For this writer, the effect did not seem intentional and was more about…
A young American wanders around Buenos Aires, looking for the grave of the famed pirate Hippolyte Bouchard, who once conquered the American’s hometown of…
As attention spans dwindle to below-goldfish levels, researchers are looking for new therapeutic treatments to tackle the steadily growing mental health issues many are…
Here’s an unpopular opinion: movies should speak for themselves. In the ever-incessant era of YouTube, TikTok, and social media, there is certainly no dearth…
There are no shortage of hagiographies about Saturday Night Live (nee, Saturday Night), which is currently celebrating its 50th season on NBC, including countless books — most famously…
Scénarios The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film Scénarios is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential…
There’s a moment smack in the middle of Beginning, Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s formally astute but callously cruel debut feature film about the combined…
It has now been seven years since Heinz Emigholz, until 2017 mainly known for his semi-silent architecture films, reintroduced language into his cinema with…
Fire of Wind is the surreal debut feature from Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, which opens presumably in the present, as workers pick grapes in…
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s newest film, Harvest, begins on the precipice of change. Based on Jim Crace’s novel of the same name, Tsangari’s adaptation is…
In 2001, Jia Zhangke made Unknown Pleasures, in which Zhao Tao plays a woman named Qiao Qiao who tries to make a living as…
How do you conjure a spectacle as a mere man? Real spectacle, the kind that rivals the infinite colorful vistas of the Northern Lights…
You might remember the 2019 movie sensation Joker. Todd Phillips, the guy who made the Hangovers, directed an allegedly searing portrait of mental illness,…