The Contractor isn’t much for ambition, but it accomplishes precisely what it sets out to, and lets Chris Pine have a little fun in the meantime.…
By the time of Taboo’s 1999 release, after a 13-year period of filmic silence, Nagisa Ôshima had already released what could be considered two capstone…
Babi Yar. Context is another notable work from Loznitsa, one that represents an important act of remembrance while also remaining frustratingly vague and lacking in, ironically,…
One of the primary games played by the motley, ever-expanding group of Hong Sang-soo lovers is that of contextualizing and recontextualizing each film within his…
Mothering Sunday fills its frames with striking images and gorgeously appointed spaces to the point of mind-numbing banality. There’s a certain kind of film, one that…
Superior sources a number of eerie genre influences in the creation of a bold, singular debut. Functioning as both an expansion and direct continuation of her…
7 Days is a high-concept rom-com that ends up feeling defanged by narrative missteps and inconsistent chemistry. Karan Soni and Geraldine Viswanathan star in 7 Days,…
So Cold the River’s successfully unnerves for a while, but ultimately gives into to more gauche and bloody flourishes. Horror likes to look backward, the…
After watching Measure of Revenge, you’ll understand why the film bears no writer credit. The Bella Thorne paycheck train chugs along with Measure of Revenge, a…
Sin Eater is a remarkably rough first draft masquerading as a finished film. There’s a recent episode of the PVD Horror Podcast that features the cast…
The only thing Tethered is tied to is a bad time. Miles from civilization, a monster stalks woods that are inhabited by a mother and…
Adventures in Success delivers some light laughs, but does little else of note with its outlandish premise. Adventures in Success follows a would-be cult, led by…
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…
Even by their standards, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Tori and Lokita is a relatively to-the-point affair. Set in an unnamed Belgian city, it follows a…
A smoothly stitched assemblage of narrative and documentary modes, Wood and Water rides a sedate wavelength to effortless but earned poignancy. The most endearing moments of Jonas…
You Are Not My Mother is appealingly steeped in the folk-horror tradition, but has a suffocating visual aesthetic and the unfortunately distinct feel of a padded-out…
Cha Cha Real Smooth With only two features under his belt, 24-year-old writer/director/leading man/wunderkind Cooper Raiff has already developed an idiosyncratic style that can most…
Master is impressively textured formally and presents is nuanced in its discursive considerations, but fails to muster many scares as a horror film. Amongst the cohort…
Credited with reimagining and popularizing the traditional Italian hand gesture of malocchio (“evil eye”) into what’s today (in)famously known as “devil’s horns” in heavy metal…
X is a gnarly throwback horror that sheds the genre’s present obsession with being about something and just slings blood and jokes for the duration of its runtime. …