Coming Soon! Published as part of the retrospective Lee Chang-dong: The Impossible Present (or, How to Reappear Completely).
Paweł Pawlikowski, the immaculate king of grim black-and-white Eastern European cinema, has made us wait eight years for a new film. After the exquisite moral…
Very often in cinema, it’s as if we know the director of a film; we know their basic predilections, visual and thematic preoccupations, but only…
Crime doesn’t pay the way it used to. At least, that’s the case for the old school petty thieves who would thrive on a practiced…
For the past decade or so, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have been dancing on either edge of the same cultural black hole. In 2018,…
Time is an amazing thing. It eludes us as we write, as we speak, read, and breathe, confounding us even more when things don’t follow…
For the first time in his feature career, Cristian Mungiu has shifted his critical gaze from Romania to its western neighbors. A Cannes luminary par…
It would be an exaggeration to call Julia Loktev’s previous documentary, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, a smash hit. Clocking…
In many respects, each of the works by Wang Bing at Cannes this year exemplifies the now-reigning axes of Wang’s interests and style. Youth (Spring)…
What’s the actual value of a documentary about Elon Musk in 2026, let alone an exhaustive one that runs nearly four hours long? Like President…
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…
Where do you start with something like Digger? It’s smug, self-satisfied, cynical, but also genuinely bleak and actually pretty thoughtful. It wants desperately to be…
NAZA is a film so powerful and so utterly terrifying that it should be watched by everyone. And still, it would feel wrong to slot…
Aardman Animations has long been the last oddball left in an increasingly homogenized world of American animation. Founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton over…
A Paul Greengrass movie is a lot like finding yourself stuck next to a talkative history professor on a plane. Well-meaning, passionate, and rambling, you…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is our great purveyor of modern ennui, a chronicler of creeping existential dread as the world we have created now threatens to engulf…
Hope, director Na Hong-jin’s first feature in a decade, is also his splashiest film. It first premiered in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes,…
Adapted from Peter Heller’s novel of the same name, The Dog Stars is set in a world that’s been decimated by a global pandemic that…
Something I learned over many years working in restaurants is that there are no cooks that work in them, no servers, no bartenders, no hosts…
Troubled souls trapped: the parameters of a typical Claire Denis narrative are rarely complex. Beau Travail’s French Foreign Legion soldiers were confined to their base…
It’s a shame I had to see Kent Jones’ Willem Dafoe vehicle, Late Fame, on the Upper West Side at NYFF in mid-September. It was…