Jackass Forever manages to once again up the ante, delivering not just the series’ best entry, but one of the most truly cinematic films in…
Erudite and playful and moving, The Worst Person in the World is brimming with ideas and feeling, and executed with the touch of a master storyteller. First…
There’s always an argument to be made over how to evaluate “discovering” an artistic voice, over whether it should come within the consideration of a…
Emily the Criminal Anyone not already convinced that Aubrey Plaza is one of the most fascinating screen presences working simply isn’t paying attention. Few other…
Black Medusa is cast with a certain austere beauty, but is an otherwise empty exercise in bland, utilitarian form. In a thankless role as one of…
Despite its generic-seeming title, Tania Anderson’s directorial debut The Mission focuses on a very specific form of religious work: the two-year missions to Finland, undertaken…
Happening Early on in Audrey Diwan’s Golden Lion–winning feature, Happening, a young woman is singled out in a classroom, unable to answer her professor’s query…
Home Team is roughly as awful a film as Sean Payton seems to be a human based on this deflective vanity project. Sean Payton, head coach…
Compartment No. 6 is a gentle, moving romance that understands the benefit of languor rather than compression in establishing human connection. Single lodgings in a two-seater…
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…
The King’s Daughter is a would-be pop confection that would have been stale even if it hadn’t sat on shelves for nearly a decade. The…
The Tiger Rising falls flat on its face. Despite a title that would seem to suggest some kind of magic-tinged narrative, The Tiger Rising is…
The Free Fall fails to balance camp, horror, and thriller in any meaningful and engaging way. Five years after his debut as a co-director of…
Stoker Hills is Exhibits A, B, and C in the case against modern found-footage films. Director Benjamin Louis’s thriller Stoker Hills opens in an anonymous…
Actor Jesse Eisenberg seems to be playing right into his on-screen persona as an insufferable narcissist with his feature directing debut When You Finish Saving…
Sharp Stick Though she’s been away from the film festival circuit for 11 years at this point, there’s no doubt that the career path Lena…
Rifkin’s Festival isn’t necessarily major Allen, but it’s a light romp that exists at a fascinating nexus of the director’s career-long pursuits and predilections. There’s a…
There’s plenty of aesthetic polish to Futura, but it’s largely mitigated by the bland, reductive didacticism at its aging core. “How do you do, fellow…
There Will Be No More Night is an intelligent, nightmarish portrait of war as first-person shooter and interrogation of how we consume visual information in our…
Brighton 4th is but the latest example of festival-facing cinema slipping into anonymity under the weight of overly familiarly elements and arcs. There’s a scene midway…