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 The…
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…
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 Magne…
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 has…
Capturing the fuzzy conceptual and materialist fluidity of modern globalization has become something of a go-to subject for contemporary non-fiction film. It’s a huge, even…
Until the Wheels Fall Off works well as a survey documentary, not necessarily penetrating but reveling in the small mysteries that careers like Hawk’s are built…
The 1970s was an important decade for Clint Eastwood; in a remarkably prolific run reminiscent of the classic Hollywood studio masters, the man starred in…
Come Here Over the past twelve years, Anocha Suwichakornpong has developed one of the more elusive and protean bodies of work on the festival circuit.…
In 1962, the great Scottish-Canadian film theorist John Grierson gave a talk at the University of North Carolina on his seminal period in 1920s USA,…
Squirrels to the Nuts may not rise to the level of salvaged masterpiece, but it breezily reasserts the legacy and artistry of Peter Bogdanovich. The rediscovery…
Gagarine is a small film, but one impressive in the balance of wonder and stark melancholy it conjures. Against the harsh realities of time and…
One of the most paradoxically romantic scenes in any film ever can be found in Alexander Mackendrick’s second film for Ealing Studios, 1951’s The Man…
The Bubble is a self-indulgent, unfunny mess of a film that continues Apatow’s sharp artistic decline. Few modern comedies have been as self-indulgent, unfunny, strangely dated,…
Barbarians is blunt-force cinema at its worst, beating viewers over the head with its shallow, pseudo-provocative gabble. Barbarians is a home-invasion thriller that desperately wants to…
Moonshot never takes off, any potential low-key rom-com pleasures undercut by a flattened sense of conflict and by-the-numbers plotting. Once a reliable Hollywood staple, the romantic…
Night’s End is a Frankensteined mess of horror movie modes that never achieves any formal or thematic cogency. Jennifer Reeder has always gravitated toward highly particular…
Everything Everywhere All at Once, true to its title, can be a little chaotic and unruly, but it’s still a hilarious and impeccably crafted bit of…
Adele Exarchopoulos makes this French import worth at least a couple fucks. The mid-midlife crisis genre has always been a bit of a mixed bag,…
Nitram is the worst sort of armchair investigation — one that reopens wounds it doesn’t bother to heal. The True History of the Kelly Gang was…
Apollo 10 ½ is another wonderful work of melancholic yesteryear from cinema’s foremost purveyor of childhood nostalgia. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood finds writer-director…