Entering Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, one is immediately faced with a decision. It’s a decision of considerable importance. Standing in the rotunda, one may either go…
Frat lives fall flat. That, at least to the outsider, is a reasonable conclusion to draw from the many unwelcome instances of its bearers…
The title character of Sean Baker’s Anora notably does not go by that name for most of the film, and appears uncomfortable when male…
Brad Dourif, known for his madman characters and many cinematic iniquities, is, it’s easy to forget, capable of staggering eclecticism. His career, unimpeachable, daring,…
The title of A24’s newest tragicomic offering, We Live in Time, recalls the gleeful cliché of romance films from the decade past: The Time…
It’s possible to make the claim that, from a certain point in his career, the works of the veteran (and outcast) Russian filmmaker Alexander…
Rumours Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular…
Revolving Rounds In Johann Lurf’s thrilling 2019 film Cavalcade, a 35mm camera records an apparent long take of a six-foot phenakistoscope water wheel constructed…
It’s been hard for me to describe Jinho Myung’s debut feature Softshell (2024) ever since it premiered at New/Next Film Festival on the first…
One approaches the release of Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice with equal parts morbid curiosity and dread. Mired in what was almost certainly expected controversy…
As with all great films, crime dramas, at their best, are much more than the machinations of their dense plots. Some of these films…
The Room Next Door Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language films have operated in a particularly confessional mode. Featuring The Room Next Door’s co-star Tilda…
Blink, the new film from the team behind 2022 Oscar-winner Navalny, justifies its existence from the start; a documentary about children losing their vision…
Eephus At first, Eephus holds the potential to make one quite sad. For this writer, the effect did not seem intentional and was more…
A young American wanders around Buenos Aires, looking for the grave of the famed pirate Hippolyte Bouchard, who once conquered the American’s hometown of…
Scénarios The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film Scénarios is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential…
How do you conjure a spectacle as a mere man? Real spectacle, the kind that rivals the infinite colorful vistas of the Northern Lights…
You might remember the 2019 movie sensation Joker. Todd Phillips, the guy who made the Hangovers, directed an allegedly searing portrait of mental illness,…
“What is time except to curve past and present around us?” Cesar Catiina (Adam Driver) asks the January 6-coded throng demanding his Megalopolis be…