The subtitle for Septet: The Story of Hong Kong isn’t an all that accurate reflection of the omnibus’s breadth: These seven short films do…
Actual People captures actual truths about the ways that young people behave. Kit Zauhar follows up her promising short film, Helicopter, with an equally talky…
Nothing Lasts Forever is a zippy but patient task-taking doc on the ills, myths, and hypocrisies of the global diamond industry. In 1929, the Surrealist…
Midnights is stuck somewhere between Taylor Swift’s classic pop textures and recent dreamy minimalism, to disappointing ends. As an unabashedly pop record, Taylor Swift’s…
Causeway is a sturdy enough film with fine anchoring performances, but it doesn’t otherwise boast much in the way of substance. It’s been some time…
My Policeman is a beige, two-hour yawn that fails to live up to superior works occupying the same thematic space. Harry Styles kept finding himself…
Something in the Dirt is a formidable DIY effort bearing Benson & Moorhead’s expected formal ingenuity, but it’s unfortunately all in service of a rather…
Raymond and Ray, while patiently contemplative, plays it too safe as a dramedy of life’s joys and sorrows. The story of estranged siblings in…
Ticket to Paradise is an entirely charmless rom-com fronted by a poisonous couple and sleepwalking its way through bland genre tropes. How hard could it…
Peter Hedges brings his typical schtick to The Same Storm, getting off to a rocky start but ultimately getting somewhere heartwarming enough. Is there any…
Ballerini’s latest leans into her strength as a writer, and builds upon her previous works in a welcome fashion. Subject to Change is country…
Decision to Leave piles on the plot twists, but never loses its essential noir romance vibe. Tang Wei remains one of the great actresses of…
Summit Fever could have climbed to better heights, but it’s base-level take leaves it just a cheesy, overlong mess. With rock-climbing films steadily entering…
Stars at Noon is the perfect externalization of a lovers-on-the-run experience, a fitting send-up to its source material. A gnarled, lightbulb-spotted, two-dimensional plastic facsimile of…
The Swimmer is yet another skin-thin film about gay men that is unfortunately more interested in titillation than characterization. The Israeli gay coming-of-age drama The…
Walk Up Walk Up is Hong Sang-soo’s trickiest film since The Day After (2017), and his most intricately structured effort since The Day He…
Bros is a would be rom-com lacking in comedy, chemistry, and untroubled rhetoric on gay culture. First off, the good news: director/co-writer Nicholas Stoller’s Bros…
Dead for a Dollar is another failed Western outing from Walter Hill, a well-intentioned but visually shoddy film that sags whenever its action disappears. After…
A fluff-piece out two months before its prime time, About Fate is a lukewarm entry into the holiday rom-com catalog. For a romantic comedy, About…