Audiences hankering for a new James Bond film can tide themselves over with Landon Van Soest’s The Jewel Thief, an engaging true crime documentary…
“U.S. history is a branch of a larger tree of history… but it’s that covetous branch that thinks it’s the tree.” Proffered somewhere partway…
Though remakes of beloved films are usually met with some degree of warranted skepticism, sometimes the combination of director and material is too enticing…
Remember Bird Box? Surely you must, since it allegedly became the most popular movie ever on Netflix at the time of its release. This…
There’s no denying the sheer aesthetic appeal of Laura McGann’s The Deepest Breath. Charting the mind-boggling freediving efforts of Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan,…
Savanah Leaf’s debut Earth Mama treats the viewer to a tender, moving portrait of a complicated Black woman. Leaf establishes the stakes early on:…
It might seem strange that Hideaki Anno’s name would come to be associated with nostalgic childhood properties, given how much of his work has…
Since the last Mission: Impossible movie, Fallout, was released in 2018, Tom Cruise has seemingly forced his superhero status into the real world by…
Insidious: The Red Door marks the fifth film in the 13-year-old horror series, but it’s the first direct sequel to 2013’s Chapter 2, with…
Two parts simmering battle of wills between a pair of strong-willed authors, one part bone-dry autocritique of its own exquisite corpse-like premise, Alice Troughton’s…
Sci-fi-tinged two-hander Biosphere is the latest offering from Mr. Mumblecore himself, Mark Duplass, who not only stars, but also co-wrote the script with director…
It’s a shame that our contemporary film exhibition apparatus has no place for medium-length works like Alain Kassanda’s Trouble Sleep. At 40 minutes, it’s…
Hollywood action films have long abdicated the realm of gritty believability in favor of awe-inspiring excitement beyond the border of suspended belief. This has…
Director Carolina Cavalli’s Italian import Amanda opens with the titular twenty-something protagonist attending a film screening alone on a Saturday night. Standing outside of…
It might seem trite to begin a film review with a quote, but we live in a world of clichés and can only outrun…
We’re in the midst of an unexpected run of films about the experiences of Asian-born women confronting the lives they left behind as children,…
As far as film titles go, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken has to be one of the worst to swing out of Hollywood in many…
Killing, at first glance, can seem something of a left-field move for cult director Shinya Tsukamoto; it’s a slow-paced period piece that expends nearly…