The Novelist’s Film One of the most pleasurable ways to engage with a Hong Sang-soo film is to consider the similarities and differences between each…
Friends and Strangers has plenty on its mind and is expertly crafted, but it fails to fully coalesce into a cogent whole. Friends and Strangers,…
From its title alone, Gastón Solnicki’s latest film suggests that it avoids grand statements, instead choosing to offer an assemblage of conceptual lagniappes, ideational odds…
Uncharted is a bland, National Treasure-esque mess of CGI and hackneyed globe-trotter tropes. Uncharted is the umpteenth attempt by Hollywood to turn a globally popular…
Hellbender is the best kind of DIY effort, technically accomplished and on the verge of transcendent horror. 2019 introduced genre audiences to The Deeper You…
James Benning’s The United States of America (2022) opens with a shot of Heron Bay, Alabama. With its muted landscape and dull blue sky, the…
In many respects, Jet Lag feels like a recognizable follow-up to Chinese director Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s Tiger Award-winning The Cloud in Her Room. There’s black-and-white…
“Swimming in lakes and ponds one also drinks out of, and finding that everything that one sees is intimately linked to one’s body movements, constituted…
Coma There have been a number of “lockdown movies” since the outbreak of Covid, and most of them have been unfortunate affairs. While it’s true…
Studio 666 is an obvious labor of love for Grohl and co., but one that delivers neither the necessary horror or comedy of its fan-service inspiration.…
Sable Island, the crescent-shaped sandbar located in the North Atlantic Ocean, is the site of Jacquelyn Mills’ debut feature film Geographies of Solitude. It’s an…
Despite being active since 1990 and directing a dozen or so films of various lengths and in various formats, it wasn’t until around the release…
Rimini The curtain doesn’t quite fall in wintry Rimini, this latest nondescript and non-place in life’s long march toward certain death. In Ulrich Seidl’s latest…
It might open on a funeral, but Secrets & Lies is quietly one of the warmest and most optimistic entries in Mike Leigh’s vaunted filmography…
A Banquet is atmospherically impressive for its first two acts, but doesn’t quite know how to stick the landing. The decision to eat or abstain…
Dog thankfully avoids propagandist war dog tropes and instead builds something sweet and poignant from its mismatched buddy comedy conceit. Having vanished at the peak…
If recent interviews are any indication, John Carpenter seems to have settled into a comfortable semi-retirement consisting of video games, weed, and collecting money from…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is yet another forgettable series entry, distinguished only by its lame attempts at social relevancy. When David Gordon Green revived Laurie Strode…
jeen-yuhs is a harrowing, deeply personal look at Kanye’s early years, celebrating the genius of both an artist and those who helped him build his…
The Cursed is blessed with beautiful images but is otherwise plagued by an overly familiar werewolf narrative. Why’s it so hard to make a good…