Liminal spaces are all the rage these days. You can’t scroll for five minutes on any given social media app without seeing an image or video depicting a room that seemingly goes on forever. These are usually malls or children’s playplaces; we love our nostalgia, but a liminal…
I was driving to see the cinema’s latest love story and stopped at a red light. On an empty street, on a cloudless night, I found myself making a U-turn. It wasn’t just that I sensed the indie I was going to was factory-made. It wasn’t that it…
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Individual Lists Aaditya Aggarwal Contributor 1. Mambar Pierrette — Rosine Mbakam 2. Mountains — Monica Sorelle 3. Janet Planet — Annie Baker 4. Babygirl — Halina Reijn 5. Queer — Luca Guadagnino 6. The Room Next Door — Pedro Almodóvar 7. Last Summer — Catherine Breillat 8. Girls Will Be Girls — Shuchi Talati 9.
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In October of 1972, a chartered airplane carrying four dozen people including a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and families crashed in the Andes. Those who weren’t killed upon impact or…
When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of effort…
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Despite being arguably the popular genre of the classical era of Hollywood, the Western has faded over time into the background of mainstream cinema.…
French auteur Jacques Rivette’s relationship to novelist Honoré de Balzac lasted throughout his entire life. His fascination first made its way into his directorial…
Cinephilia is necessarily littered with the detritus of half-remembered viewing experiences, films only glimpsed from childhood in a perspective almost wholly incompatible with the…
While his first directorial credit for a commercial project was released a decade after the Movie Brats first took hold of Hollywood in the…
Jerry and Marge Go Large presents its larger-than-life tale with restraint and sincerity, imbuing its caper framework with the tenderness of a Christmas comedy. If…
I Never Liked You continues Future’s streak of doing nothing more than the minimum, with moderately successful results. It’s been a while since we…
Future It’s been a while since we last heard from Future — if, and only if, one goes off of his previous track record’s…
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The Marksman is a sturdy and uncomplicated but mostly satisfying entry into the Neeson oeuvre of stoic, righteous masculinity. Another exercise in stoicism and dignified masculinity, replete with a dash of reactionary violence and a grizzled lead performance? Smells like a Liam Neeson movie. In The Marksman, Neeson plays…
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