What makes a great writer? Romantics and bookworms might wax poetic about unparalleled emotional insight or the fearless plumbing of the human condition, but…
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is quite naked in its ambitions to become the next classic British Christmas special —…
From the first frame of Alcarràs, Carla Simón alerts the viewer to the integrality of the summery Catalonian landscape of her film. Within these…
Based on Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel, Scott Cooper’s painfully dull The Pale Blue Eye imagines a fictional murder mystery featuring one Edgar Allan Poe…
Despite being arguably the popular genre of the classical era of Hollywood, the Western has faded over time into the background of mainstream cinema.…
Welcome to the new world of genre cinema, where decades of low-budget sleaze and slime have been overtaken by PG-13-rated, eminently meme-able stuff that’s…
When Kasi Lemmons made her directorial debut with the 1997 Southern Gothic masterpiece Eve’s Bayou, it likely wouldn’t have occurred to people that she…
On the occasion of him winning the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for his film Shoplifters, I called Hirokazu Kore-eda “the…
Changes are coming to InRO in 2023, and by that we mean today. Beginning in January, InRO will be dropping a weekly magazine, every…
Rarely does the weight of a classic so gracefully crimp under the weightlessness of an earnest successor, less keen on displacing the gravitas of…
When Empress Elizabeth visits a mental asylum — the sort of place in 1878 where men are institutionalized for mental disorders and women for…
If the recent High Heat represents a kind of floor for a DTV genre work — some perfect okay action courtesy of a game…
We’ve frequently proselytized for the relative value of the DTV action-thriller here at InRO, but the truth of the matter is that, more often…
Banned from filmmaking for 20 years back in 2010 for making what the Iranian government deemed “propaganda against the system,” Jafar Panahi has nevertheless…
Tucked into the lap of the tributaries of the Euphrates River, the city of Babylon once towered. Hammurabi, who conquered the entirety of Southern…
In her overview of lesbian-feminist criticism, Bonnie Zimmerman urged lesbian critics to look into “what has been unspoken and barely imagined” in order to…
Holiday event filmmaking comes with a simple crutch — these stories nearly always end in a lesson. Art created for and surrounding children typically…
The first thing you notice about Sarah Polley’s Women Talking is the color palette. It’s desaturated in the extreme — isolated shots even look…