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,…
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…
Ted Kaczynski offers us one of the great case studies in worthwhile notions and piss-poor execution. It’s hard to look at his ideas and not…
An opening shot of a bleeding, near-dead girl dragging herself across a tennis court in pitch darkness, only to be knocked out by a single…
Why are filmmakers today so afraid of melodrama? Many’s a recent feature, from the acclaimed (Celine Song’s Past Lives) to the less so (Luca Guadagnino’s…
Replacing Science Fiction and Fantasy, romance — colloquially specified as “smut” — has solidified as the dominant literary genre fare in the U.S. In a…
Ah Pulp: national treasures, indie disco floor-fillers, perennial smartarse answer to “Blur vs Oasis.” And in frontman Jarvis Cocker, they had the gawky underdog turned…
It’s overselling Mayday a bit to suggest that it could have been made and released in 1987, when it takes place. That said, it’s rather…
The Russo brothers are now a brand unto themselves. Whether helming as directors or solely producing, there’s a certain “offensively inoffensive” blandness that has characterized…
Let’s imagine for a second the the potential recent states of mind of Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. Both are relatively fresh off some enormous…
“An ode to cinema” — an audacious claim with which to open one’s feature, but audacity courses through the work of Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah…
45 years after an environmental catastrophe has emptied the sea around Rio de Janeiro, the city’s main entertainment is a televised series of lethal parkour…
The late Adrienne Shelly’s posthumous 2007 release Waitress was always an odd choice for a musical adaptation, but 10 years after its Broadway debut —…
It’s a fair response for one to give less importance to mainstream directors when they downplay their themes or politics in interviews, for if the…
The quaint and rustic settlement of Sangerhausen, in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt, might have been an incidental choice of setting, but much of Julian Radlmaier’s quietly revelatory…
18 years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender and 12 years after the conclusion of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra, creators…
July marks the beginning of the second half of 2026, and Killer Shark Movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year, arriving in cinemas and on…
Hanna Bergholm’s second feature has had two lives. At its world premiere in the Berlinale competition, Nightborn was generally considered a low point in an…
Perhaps the funniest moment in The Dink comes when Dusty (Jake Johnson) aka the Hammer, watches The Graduate with Candace (Mary Steenburgen), not realizing it’s…
What becomes quickly apparent when diving into Izabel Pakzad’s directorial debut Find Your Friends is that by basically every metric you might generally judge a…
The great Malcolm D. Lee’s new Peacock streamer Strung opens with an arresting scene of Laila Calloway (the potentially computer-animated actor and popstar Chloe Bailey),…