Over the past few years, Netflix has, to various degrees, made gestures toward bringing beloved box-office stars from Millennial childhoods like Lindsay Lohan, Winona Ryder,…
Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, after premiering at last year’s Venice Film Festival and winning the festival’s prize for Best Screenplay, amassed an unforeseen level…
If simplicity forms the premise of Andrew and Sam Zuchero’s Love Me, subtlety, however, is the last thing to constitute its payoff. Taking a gamut…
Director Neil Burger first formed the idea that would spawn the globe-spanning espionage thriller Inheritance during the early, claustrophobic period of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I…
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel are a contemporary duo whose work rebukes and inquires into the reactionary, philosophical response to an accelerated technological development, rendering…
“You’re safe. You’re totally safe,” says Terry Masear to a small hummingbird named Wasabi in the opening moments of Every Little Thing. The documentary, directed…
An improbable 14 films in, and the Star Trek franchise has finally delivered its first truly unwatchable feature film. It’s difficult to think of a…
Activism often dictates that form follows function, and that the message must come through at all costs — even if it should sacrifice the logic…
Ah, Mel Gibson. Mad Mel. The man who went from one of the biggest movie stars in the world to a relative pariah due to…
The beginning of Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s debut feature, Birdeater, condenses the relationship of Louie (Mackenzie Fearnley) and Irene (Shabana Azeez) into an extended, almost…
From the summer of 2019 to the winter of 2023, Basel Adra — along with co-directors Yuval Abraham and Handan Ballal — documented how his…
Watching Disfluency feels a bit like being guided through a museum exhibit by a tour guide who won’t stop talking. There’s promising art to behold…