Sorry We Missed You finds Ken Loach taking on the gig economy and the Sisyphean struggle it inflicts. For over fifty years now, Ken Loach has specialized…
Extra Ordinary is a genuinely exciting debut that delivers a charming, standout comedic lead turn from Maeve Higgins. Writing-directing duo Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman…
The Wild Goose Lake is a thrilling neon noir and incisive commentary on the degradation that comes with rapid economic boon. There’s a particularly pleasing…
Heimat Is a Space in Time is a film of palpable gravity but one that may always be more meaningful to Heise than to audiences.…
Director Carlo Mirabella-Davis recalls such singular voices as Antonio Campos and Michael Haneke with the visually rich, metaphorical horror film Swallow. Like a lot…
“I didn’t know you never wake up from some dreams.” says Officer 663 (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), one of many lovelorn characters in Wong Kar-wai’s…
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 into…
The brilliance in the work of Joel and Ethan Coen comes from the brothers’ ability to find balance in the seemingly contradictory nature of…
After a six month delay resulting from various media outlets labelling the film, sight unseen, as “dangerous Liberal propaganda,” Craig Zobel’s horror-comedy The Hunt…
Red Beard — despite its three-hour-plus runtime, massive 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio, and a production history lasting approximately two years — is a rather…
No question, the ‘90s were a turbulent time for superhero movies: the Superman franchise had long been dormant, put in limbo thanks to producer…
If there is only one trait which distinguishes Bird Island from other contemporary documentaries, it is of the singular way in which the directorial…
In his book David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, Dennis Lim makes a key distinction between the artistic motivations of the American film brats…
With theaters closed and film releases temporarily cancelled, there isn’t a whole lot of film content to produce over here at InRO. But one…
In the age of mass production, art is nothing unique. And in the 1960s, the work of Andy Warhol became one of the foremost…
The Hollywood machine may be pumping its brakes right now — with an ever-growing list of release date delays announced across the next month…
There is a lot wrong with Onward, Pixar’s highly uninspired 22nd feature film. Its most surprising fault, though, is its complete lack of detail.…
We at InRO have never covered the Portland International Film Festival, but we’re all about evolving in 2020, and so here is our first…