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 since…
Despite what the joint juggernaut of social media and trade journals would have you believe, fall festival season encompasses more than just the triumvirate of…
Any nerve-shredding tendencies present in Nocebo are punctured by its clunky exposition, predictable ending, and insistence on trite messaging. There are two kinds of clinical…
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 in…
Armageddon Time is far from Gray’s best and can occasionally risk eye-roll liberal apologia, but the director is ultimately too smart a filmmaker to fully…
The Metamorphosis of Birds is a sensual and lyrical work that recalls the old masters even as it carves out its own distinct and pleasurable path. …
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is a squeamy good time, as inspired by nonsense sketch comedy as it is Cronenbergian body horror. Whatever…
Red looks like a One Piece film but doesn’t feel like one, lazily delivering franchise content without the emotional and visual force necessary to truly animate it. For…
Soft & Quiet doesn’t know what to do with its thorny subject matter and disturbing imagery, allowing it all to just linger on screen as wanton…
Missing sometimes suffers from unfocused digressions, but it mostly coheres well by the end and marks Katayama as a director to follow. Satoshi Harada (Jirô…
Meet Me in the Bathroom’s winnowed focus turns what could have been a vibrant behind-the-scenes doc into more conventional, surface-skimming fare. Meet Me in the…
Weird is a lovably cartoonish take on the musical biopic, but there’s simply too much dead air between its gags to keep things as funny…
This latest adaptation of All Quiet On the Western Front is a slick affair that trades in shallow aesthetics at the expense of any real substance. “This…
Over the course of its initial eight episodes, Guillermo del Toro’s The Cabinet of Curiosities has proven to be wildly eclectic in its subject matter…
Spelled out in a brusque, harried introduction by Cabinet of Curiosities orchestrator Guillermo Del Toro (maybe 10% invested in his Hitchcockian hosting duties), Panos Cosmatos’…
Of the eight directors drafted to the roster of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Catherine Hardwick may be the oddest choice. Technically, she does…
The fifth installment in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities is “Pickman’s Model,” inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name and directed…
Utama is undeniably one of the year’s most gorgeous works of image-making, but its narrative and thematic expressions are less consistently impressive. Over the past two…
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 trite…
Descendant is a piercing work of ethnography that takes on America’s original sin with intelligence and nuance. Reclaiming history has, historically, been an arduous process, and…
Falun Gong deserves a more rigorous and sophisticated defense than the templated, trend-chasing Eternal Spring is able to mount for it. For a film with…