Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are no strangers to giving beloved characters the coming-of-age treatment, having previously created the teenage years for none other…
Basketball isn’t like other sports. Certainly not any that Jon Bois and co-writer Alex Rubenstein have covered before, which may go a ways in…
She Said lends no depth to its leads and is an aesthetically anonymous work that fails to justify the big screen treatment. It has…
Leonor Will Never Die is a sweetly thoughtful drama disguised as loving genre throwback, with perhaps a pinch of cannier discourse creeping beneath its…
Anyone who has seen enough music documentaries probably has a pretty good idea of what The Return of Tanya Tucker would be before going…
Wisdom Gone Wild In Wisdom Gone Wild, Rea Tajiri returns to the subject of one of her earliest and best-known works: her mother. That…
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong The subtitle for Septet: The Story of Hong Kong isn’t an all that accurate reflection of the omnibus’s…
Bad Axe is a tender and heartfelt portrait of a family, town, and nation in crisis. In light of an unprecedented global vaccine effort,…
Story of a Mouse is unsurprisingly beholden to a certain vein of hagiography, but it’s also compellingly as racked with contradictions as its titular…
Even given its obvious vanity vehicle motivations, Poker Face is a dire affair. Russell Crowe returns to the director’s chair for Poker Face, an unwieldy,…
Writer/director Wai Ka-fai is likely best known in the West for his collaborations with Johnnie To and their Milkyway Image production house (which the…
Lost Bullet 2 is hands down one of the best actioners of the year. With the avalanche of movies and television thrust upon increasingly weary…
EO avoids the simplistic anthropomorphism that has plagued so many recent animal-centric films, and immerses viewers into something entirely more alien. Pitched as a remake…
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…
DOC NYC is back. Boasting the tagline “America’s Largest Documentary Festival,” the renown is on the tin, but it’s nonetheless always a treat to…
My Father’s Dragon bears little of the depth or artistry that has made Cartoon Saloon features worthy of note in recently years. In The Secret…
Wendell & Wild has evident ambition, but it’s ultimately far too small. Seemingly focus-tested for maximum appeal to parents who really, really miss Key &…
A Couple reflects a shift in Wiseman’s work, his fascination in institutional minutia pivoting to more transcendentalist territory, to moving effect. Performance — itself…