In this dispatch: You Don’t Belong…
A staid frostiness envelops the frames of Florin Şerban’s smoldering latest feature, whose clinching of the top prize at its Locarno premiere serves as an…
A woman of unknown origin and, for a time, unknown purpose, Mira (Larissa Corriveau) observes. For some, her observation is distant, silently watching the people…
A purveyor of artifice and decadence, the films of Bertrand Mandico are at their most interesting on the purely visual plane. He fills his frames…
It’s fairly easy for an artist to commit themselves to a concept, less easy for them to do it justice through their art. Lê Bảo’s…
Small talk counts more critics than supporters. Pleasantries about families, careers, mutual acquaintances, or — if the conversation really gets dire — the weather, despite…
True objectivity is, practically speaking, virtually impossible when analyzing art. Each individual approaches each work of art, whether film, painting, music, literature, or so on,…
Alex Cox loves to make movies. He doesn’t get to do that very often these days, but when he does, they’re more likely than not…
The late Adrienne Shelly’s posthumous 2007 release Waitress was always an odd choice for a musical adaptation, but 10 years after its Broadway debut —…
In this dispatch: Objet a, The House on…
Found family is sometimes thicker than blood, and in Amartei Armar’s uplifting feature debut, his two youthful protagonists first band together against all the world’s…
A TV narrator talks about how wealth is an illusion, while the TV is stuck on the eyes of a caiman, the Jacare of the…
The central narrative question raised by Swedish-Danish writer-director Maria Bäck in her film Brave New Love is not exactly novel: an accomplished woman is happy…
The appeal of the legend lies less, as one might think, in its relatability to mortal affairs, but precisely in its sublime, eternal otherness where…
An undeniably audacious film, Ann Oren’s Objet a is also actively irksome. At the risk of coming across as condescending, this is the sort of…
Will Poulter’s course has been an unconventional one to follow. Breaking through in the UK when he was still a teen in the sketch show…
Imagine operating on near-dying people every day in the most horrific conditions. Droves of broken bodies arriving at your hospital after mass bombings of civilian…
Cinema has a unique capacity for depicting time, as we all know. But this plasticity — turning “time” into a physical ribbon of pictures and…
Seeing the new KATSEYE documentary in August of 2026 is a lot like seeing a brand new feature from a recently deceased actor. Between filming…
In this dispatch: The Riverbank, Hanabi…
The northern city of Recife, Brazil, enjoyed something of a renaissance last year with the success of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Garnering more…