Character-driven documentaries place their subjects in a vulnerable position, allowing filmmakers to construct the version of life that will remain attached to them forever. In his…
When Blerta Basholli premiered her debut feature Hive in 2021, it played like a small miracle. The Kosovar Albanian director broke records at Sundance, taking…
Koki, Ciao, the award-winning Dutch experimental short film, is dictated by an unusual protagonist with a storied life, known for charming the likes of Sophia…
More than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and over a decade after the annexation of Crimea, a desire to put the inner…
While some cinema traditionalists may wring their hands at the prospect of YouTubers taking over the world, we’re at a point where it’s no longer…
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, except for Leos Carax’s bizarro musical Annette (2021), the last decade of the Cannes Film Festival has boasted some…
It is not a steady wind that brings Nietzsche to the criticism of Magnificent Obsession, a film whose slavish self-sacrifice would doubtless atomize the long-dead…
The plant world is a marvel of sight and sound, this Ildikó Enyedi knows. Across several features, the Hungarian writer-director has been steadily uprooting the…
The world has changed a lot since The Collingswood Story pioneered Screenlife storytelling in 2002. Nickelback had the top single that year, mid-budget films still…
Initially undistributed and reportedly rejected by film festivals such as Sundance and SXSW last year, prior to the acquisition courtesy of rookie distributor Obscured Releasing…
James Cameron is the last gunslinger who knows what to do with 3D (at least until Ang Lee is released from Director Jail), although countless…
It’s a marketer’s dream title, isn’t it: The Sheep Detectives. Straight to the point and brain-tickling. Indeed, considering the slick, straight-to-Amazon Prime aesthetic, it wouldn’t…
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The Burmese python — an invasive species eating into native animal populations in the Florida Everglades — might be at the heart of Xander Robin’s…
Since stepping down as In Review Online’s Editor-in…
In Annihilation, Florida writer Jeff VanderMeer writes, “When you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.” That novel’s…
More an indictment of pop referentiality than a true reflection of psyche, the opening minute of Katarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr edges toward a pat diagnosis of…
Shot on a Sony PD150 handheld, with very few, if any, location permits, and a lead actress change halfway through production, City Wide Fever shouldn’t…
If you’re looking for a supposed “fresh set of eyes” in your criticism, I am the ideal audience for Mortal Kombat II. I haven’t seen…
Elliot Tuttle’s sophomore feature, Blue Film, arrives hot on the heels of controversy — or so we’re meant to believe. It premiered last year at…
No civilization without land was the starting point of Carl Schmitt’s definition of the nomos — the measure by which land “in a particular order…