jeen-yuhs is a harrowing, deeply personal look at Kanye’s early years, celebrating the genius of both an artist and those who helped him build his…
Kimi occasionally falters in terms of character and dramaturgy, but Soderbergh’s latest is still a slick, undeniably cool Hitchcockian riff on smart technology’s dual nature. While it…
The Sky is Everywhere’s YA origins generate too many cringey twee moments here, but there’s no denying Decker’s visual power to elevate the material. Her…
Bigbug is all bug and no feature, an obnoxious, puerile work of catastrophic indulgence from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Much has been made of the fact that,…
I Want You Back is a pleasantly askew rom-com, acidic on the edges and reveling in the distinct comedic style of its leads. There was a…
All the Moons is a gorgeous, sorrowful, and achingly sensitive fairy tale. Though it at first looks like a typical, if particularly handsome, period vampire film,…
Lingui is a middlebrow arthouse trifle that offends in its simplicity and deference to narrative convenience. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, the latest from Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh…
Like so much recent horror, Slapface relies too heavily on soft metaphor, but there’s sufficient talent here to still keep things interesting. Jeremiah Kipp’s Slapface…
Black Medusa is cast with a certain austere beauty, but is an otherwise empty exercise in bland, utilitarian form. In a thankless role as one of…
Home Team is roughly as awful a film as Sean Payton seems to be a human based on this deflective vanity project. Sean Payton, head coach…
There Will Be No More Night is an intelligent, nightmarish portrait of war as first-person shooter and interrogation of how we consume visual information in our…
Katz’s film is an understated, elliptical work that speaks volumes in its pointed quietude. Ana Katz’s The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet appears at first…
A Hero is Farhadi’s best work in a minute, still hampered by the director’s anonymous formal style, but otherwise delivering another masterful work of drama. Few…
The tame, backwards Sex Appeal has very little appeal indeed. New Hulu original Sex Appeal is tailor-made to be watched at sleepovers by undiscerning pretween girls looking…
Boy Harsher’s foray into filmmaking is a bit clunky, but The Runner certainly doesn’t lack for ambition or vibes. Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller have…
The House isn’t quite a home, its neat little anthology package coming too much untied in a miscalculated final leg. The latest in Netflix’s endless stream…
Brazen is slickly made, but it’s otherwise firmly rooted in ’80s Lifetime thriller territory. As a title, Brazen sounds a little old-fashioned, a promise of titillation…
Woodlands Dark is exceedingly thoughtful and never less than riveting despite its length, a film destined to become an important work of criticism. In 2012,…
Return to Hogwarts is the latest Harry Potter product to trade in empty nostalgia for sole the purpose of propping up the money-making franchise. As…
The Lost Daughter doesn’t quite manage its own distinct cinematic voice, but still proves Gyllenhaal to be a director worth keeping up with going forward. While…