There are exactly two minutes and 39 seconds in which Harrison Atkins’ second feature operates as a straightforward slice of ineffectual mumblecore. We follow our…
The magic of the digital world allows us to be instantly and perpetually connected with one another. Childhood friends, high school crushes, former co-workers, distant…
Riptides is a dark comedy about a simple man who, inspired by the words of a self-help author, tries to revolutionize his life and ends…
Theodore Schaefer’s sophomore feature announces itself right from the jump, with a free-flowing camera flying, crashing, and zooming through modern New York City as if…
Moving at the speed of its title, Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus’s It Goes That Quick, which premiered at MoMI’s First Look last spring, is…
Over drinks at a lounge in Hollywood, Chris Rock tells Rosalind Eleazar that if you go anywhere in America, there’s a chance that at some…
Setting one’s low-budget genre film in a single setting is a time-honored tradition, a money-saving maneuver that makes for a simple calling-card exercise but which…
A roundup of the reviews we filed…
Ever-present on those pesky “most disturbing movies” lists, Begotten almost became a victim of its own success. The film’s demiurge, God Killing Himself, adorns the…
The United States of America is a drag queen. Drunk, dressed in her shiniest finery, and thickly rouged, the American empire according to Jack Smith…
In this dispatch: Cameron Winter at…
Geese, for lack of a better word, is good. Heirs apparent to the art-rock mantle, they reign in the arena less because they deserve the…
German director Luise Donschen follows her own path, to put it mildly. Her 2018 debut feature, Casanova Gene, was a daring conceptual project that, in…
Even among the film festival cognoscenti, experimental films sometimes inspire their fair share of confusion. This is to be expected, since the films in question…
There’s a spectrum of certain psychologically- or chemically-rooted qualities that most people who participate in extreme sports must have in order to succeed. But others,…
As the growth and ubiquity of AI continues to accelerate at a terrifyingly rapid rate, so do the horror films that seek to capitalize on…
In this dispatch: What Can’t Be…
The obvious thing to say about Dan Sallitt’s new film, What Can’t Be Mentioned, is that it can’t be fully appreciated without first seeing its…
As the title would have us to expect, Beatrice Gibson’s At Night is indeed (mostly) a nocturnal film, but Gibson does so much more than…
Having seen all six Currents shorts programs at this year’s New York Film Festival, Program 3: Surface Noise emerged as the most successful of the…
The raw, almost feral energy that Margaret Qualley can bring to her best roles often exists in fascinating tension with the serenity of her wide-eyed…