The Perfect David, the debut feature from Argentinian filmmaker Felipe Gómez Aparicio, opens with a shot of a teenage male working out, his swollen biceps…
Fathom In the wake of Planet Earth’s zeitgeist arrival in 2006 and DisneyNature’s subsequent founding a short two years later, the nature documentary — and,…
Sweat swims in the grey areas of internet intimacy to thoughtful, sometimes unsettling results. For as long as we’ve held any conception of celebrity, it’s…
Superdeep is only horrific in how much deadening exposition it forces viewers to endure. The idea that the deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth,…
In the opening minutes, an individual practices tennis serves to no one. After every two serves, there is a momentary black screen. Some serves are…
Get Out gets the alien abduction treatment in No Running, a half-hearted stab at social commentary that isn’t nearly as fun or as clever as…
Dating & New York Dating & New York, Jonah Feingold’s feature debut after working in shorts and television for the past decade, is a film…
The Birthday Cake doesn’t offer anything original, but its small-scale mob stylings will likely please a certain moviegoing demographic. If the Internet is to be believed,…
Siberia takes on nothing less than the very nature of reality, and is an emphatic statement on the necessity, not luxury, of creativity. Relating to an…
Sweet Thing is one of the most gorgeous films in recent memory, but it fails to develop beyond its pretty packaging. Titled in homage to…
Luca is an obviously gorgeous film, but its half-cooked conception and execution continues the recent trend of sub-par Pixar efforts. The currently swirling rumors which claim…
Fatherhood isn’t going to be remembered as a comedy classic, or much at all, but given its rocky road to release, it could have been much…
Peter Rabbit 2 wishes it were a Paddington film. It isn’t. It’s fair to say Will Gluck’s Peter Rabbit 2 wants a piece of the Paddington pie.…
The oner is one of the most divisive visual gambits in cinema, so the logical question is what makes for a successful execution of this…
A heavy-handed allegory on the evils of capitalism posing as a contemplative character study, Zhou Ziyang’s Wu Hai wallows in the misery of its protagonist,…
Italian Studies Dislocation and dissociation lie at the heart of Italian Studies, a work straddling narrative and documentary, identified precisely through its rejection of stable,…
Gaia is a masterwork of oppressive mood, a brutal, almost Biblical portrait of creation and destruction. There’s an ancient, malevolent force living in the depths of…
The Sparks Brothers is an energetic, cinematic homage to one of the most cinematic musical groups of all-time. For most of their fans and listeners, a…
Filmmaker Bing Liu became a notable name quite suddenly in 2018 when his feature debut Minding the Gap premiered at Sundance, going on to be…
Ivy (co-screenwriter Kelly Murtagh), a New Orleans lounge singer wanting to break through to stardom, is also confronting an eating disorder that threatens to upend…