The Other Me amounts to little more than an empty spectacle banking on David Lynch’s name. Let’s get it out of the way: the most interesting…
There’s some mild fun to be had with Last Looks’ particular soft noir style, but it ultimately registers as a pale imitation of something you’ve seen…
Lingui is a middlebrow arthouse trifle that offends in its simplicity and deference to narrative convenience. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, the latest from Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh…
Moonfall is big, dumb, exuberant fun and a welcome blockbuster-sized tonic from the endless IP regurgitation clogging theaters. Who’s ready for another disasterpiece from the…
Like so much recent horror, Slapface relies too heavily on soft metaphor, but there’s sufficient talent here to still keep things interesting. Jeremiah Kipp’s Slapface…
Framing Agnes — the second feature-length documentary directed by Chase Joynt, who also co-directed No Ordinary Man (2020) — lays the vast bulk of its…
Perhaps because artists are so often misfits, unable to easily fit in to the normal currents of society, the slacker remains one of cinema’s enduring…
Framing Agnes Framing Agnes — the second feature-length documentary directed by Chase Joynt, who also co-directed No Ordinary Man (2020) — lays the vast bulk…
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…