Lest the sun not rise again, Indiana Jones must return, he must gallivant to another side of the globe and retrieve the magical MacGuffin, and…
Historically held in low-regard, the coming-of-age comedy (or, to be less discrete, the teen sex comedy) has long served as a useful snapshot of the…
Jon Hamm and Tina Fey, two of the most beloved television actors of the 21st century, have been orbiting each other for so long that…
From his early short films to his two breakout features, Stranger by the Lake (2013) and Staying Vertical (2016), Alain Guiraudie has long conveyed a…
Like your sainted grandmother almost certainly used to say, there’s nothing better than an insipidly violent piece of trash to restore your faith in cinema.…
Suicide narratives are dominated by two extremes: the undermined sense that all knowledge about the person who has died is now a hopelessly incomplete, even…
Long the standard bearer in American animation, specializing in four-quadrant hits that thread the needle between entertaining small children and reducing their parents to tears,…
When Carl Sagan wrote about the Pale Blue Dot photograph, in which a satellite photo frames Earth as a blue speck of dust in space…
Surviving the turnover of multiple directors, literal years of delays and reshoots, endless public troubles centered around its star, and even the wholesale scrapping of…
Since 1969, the French Directors’ Guild (SRF) has held the Directors’ Fortnight in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. Often more adventurous than the official…
Srdan Keca’s observational documentary, Museum of the Revolution, begins in darkness. The viewer reads a series of words from 1961: “The purpose of the Museum…
Users, Natalia Almada’s new essayistic documentary, is a text at war with itself, equal parts poetic rumination on the place of modern technology in our…
The challenge of representing larger-than-life figures is that it can be hard to fit them in frame. But what about figures who abstain from the…
There’s the kernel of a fascinating Frankenstein adaptation at the center of Bomani J. Story’s directorial debut, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. Taking…
Pietro Marcello’s background in documentary work aided his first fiction debut, Martin Eden, as his penchant for handheld Super 16mm film gave a “being there”…
David Lynch, a filmmaker with an oeuvre so inimitable and a style so recognizable that he is one of a handful of directors whose last…
Hot on the heels of his tepid Netflix spy show, FUBAR, the streamer has delivered a three-hour miniseries centering its star, the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger.…
Ji-na sits in a cubicle, with only a Keith Haring tissue box to distinguish this space from any other in the office. She talks into…
Now with three feature films to his name as writer-director, Ted Geoghegan has carved out a nice niche for himself as a go-for-broke indie horror…
One of the most harrowing legacies of Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government had nothing to do with economics, labor unions, or privatization. Instead, Section 28 was…
There is a literary sensibility to Juan Felipe Zuleta’s directorial debut, Unidentified Objects, that operates in the tradition of an invisible reality. A frenetic alien…