Setting themselves far apart from most of the indie/DIY horror scene that focuses on squeaky exploitation thrills and slasher stuff (not that there’s anything wrong…
I once carpooled from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to my small hometown in Northeast Ohio with a stranger. She was an attractive woman…
Kim Byung-woo’s fifth directorial effort, The Great Flood, first shows An-na (Kim Da-mi) resignedly trying to quell her six-year-old son Ja-in’s (Kwon Eun-seong) insistent and…
Michael Showalter, in the past decade, has parlayed his success as a comedic writer and performer into a career as a writer-director of audience-pleasing dramedies…
A former editor-in-chief of mine once told me to write lightly about heavy matters, and heavily about light ones — an adage that easily applies…
With only two features — 2020’s Shithouse and 2022’s Cha Cha Real Smooth — and a short film under his belt, Cooper Raiff has already…
Rian Johnson brought the whodunnit into the 21st century, for better or worse. Knives Out revived it, imbuing the subgenre with the cozy vibes we…
In the 21st century, almost every film beyond a certain tax bracket is transnational in nature. Choose even a lower-budget indie film, ostensibly maintained in…
Sincerity is dead at the movies, and this fall season has treated us to a preponderance of autopsies as proof — Bugonia, A House of…
It’s quite obvious at this point that Netflix has firmed up their annual Christmas lineup formula by tugging at millennials’ soft spots via a mix…
Ken Burns is more closely associated with the tweed jacket crowd than the bohemian, blowing dust off antiquarian events so that public access television has…
Left-Handed Girl is a movie of debts: of money owed to hospitals and landlords, of time owed to family, of the obligations of history. For…
Love+War, the latest project produced by Little Monster Films, helmed by the dynamic documentarian duo of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chair Vasarhelyi (Free Solo), couldn’t…
The themes of time and guilt are ribboned together in Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, a modest yet sweeping period drama set in the Pacific Northwest during…
On its face, the concept of writer-director Nia DaCosta’s Hedda sounds perilously, excitingly ambitious: DaCosta has adapted Henrik Ibsen’s venerated drama of psychological realism Hedda…
An older couple congratulates producer Georges de Beauregard on the success of his magnificent new film — politely interrupting young Jean-Luc Godard, who has been…
The makers of The Perfect Neighbor, which is largely composed of police bodycam and dashcam footage, decided that it was necessary to include a recording…
1992’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is B-movie perfection, a secretly elegant story of women in competition that satirizes both maternity and sorority. And…
Simon Stone’s mystery/thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 follows an intriguing, Agatha-adjacent premise: the determined and persistent Laura “Lo” Blacklock (Keira Knightley), a successful investigative…
To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson that Edward Berger, cinema’s new…