On the surface, Dutch filmmaker Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s Alpha. falls into the trap set out by most contemporary European festival circuit films. It’s a movie…
The name most likely to catch the attention of cinephiles in the credits of Shahab Fotouhi’s first feature Boomerang is co-editor Aleksandre Koberidze, who broke…
The first thing you need to understand about The Deliverance is that said deliverance is different from an exorcism — no intercessor is needed. At…
For people of a certain age, author Joe R. Lansdale will likely always be best known as the writer of some of the best Jonah…
To its considerable credit, Stephen Soucy’s recent documentary, Merchant Ivory (2024), resists the tendency toward hagiography. It’s an understandably tempting opportunity, composed as the film…
Mohit Ramchandani’s City Of Dreams is, in actuality, a cinema of nightmares. Or, more accurately, a cinematic nightmare. The film — which follows a young…
Jeremy Saulnier’s new thriller Rebel Ridge doesn’t waste a moment of time getting wound up. Immediately, Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, in a terrific performance that…
Six years ago Zia Anger’s live cinema presentation My First Film (from which the film My First Film is adapted) sparked a fire around her…
Queen Elizabeth II’s love of horses is well known. She even made the trek to Kentucky five separate times during her reign to visit various…
In an early scene in Igarashi Kohei’s Super Happy Forever, Sano (Hiroki Sano) confronts a child on the beach. It’s a scene that feels devoid…
In 2002, Olivier Assayas’ Demonlover premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival to a storm of controversy, eclipsed — for better or worse —…
In the opening scene of Ciro De Caro’s Taxi Monamour, the film introduces one of its two heroines in a hospital clinic: a young Italian…
There’s a reason spacecrafts are often the setting of horror stories: they are the ultimate locked room. No matter what threatens you inside, there is…
Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez premiered their new film, Invention, at Locarno last month, not quite sure what kind of life or reception it would…
From HAL’s unrelenting utilitarianism to Demon Seed’s Proteus longing for physical form beyond its servers to Margeaux’s desire to understand humans completely by murdering them…
2024 has been a good year for nostalgia-driven genre cinema so far. Especially with the widespread popularity of films like I Saw the TV Glow…
Cinema certainly offers no shortly of coming-of-age films, yet very rarely do any of them rise above qualified praise to break the mold and stand…
Because of the sheer breadth of work on display — 10 programs, with an average of seven or eight films per program — the annual…
Hero is one of the great films by one of the world’s most brilliant image-makers in Zhang Yimou, shot by one of the world’s most…
Reagan, directed by Sean McNamara and based on the 2006 Paul Kengor book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, accounts for the…