It’s almost October, which means Cozy Anderson Autumn is officially upon us. While 2009’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox was a joyous animated heist movie replete…
Much has been written over the last few years of how the limited dramatic series has eroded the market for the mid-sized, adult-themed, star-driven drama…
Setting aside the relative quality of the movie itself, Gareth Edwards’ tech-heavy sci-fi epic The Creator is notable at the very least for not being…
The most buzzed-about title at this past January’s Sundance (accompanied by an astonishing $20 million acquisition from Netflix), Chloe Domont’s Fair Play has been heralded…
Patricia Mazuy, now six films deep in a three-decade-plus career with Saturn Bowling, has always risked a certain, tantrum-centric filmmaking, favoring characters with shared psychoses…
Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside begins on an appropriately ominous note; the camera prowls down a dark hallway, blood-splattered on walls and bodies lying on…
Film is a collection of stills, yet rarely is film still; in the empire of the moving image, action and reaction reign supreme. But action…
Sporting an overly cutesy and clever-aspiring title that confounds as much as it explains, Expend4bles marks the fourth film in the long-in-the-tooth action franchise The…
Sebastien Marnier’s latest breezy, twisty thriller The Origin of Evil may lack any deeper interrogation in its Agatha Christie-reinvention of deception, but its strong ensemble…
As climate change continues its steady march toward apocalyptic crescendo, its devastating effects are becoming more and more visible. In 2022, the United States alone…
Already an acclaimed editor on films such as Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light & Post Tenebras Lux and Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja, as well as an actress…
Director Kiohara Yui’s last feature, Our House — which debuted in 2017, and which this writer briefly reviewed here at InRO when it played the…
Back in 2006, five years after 9/11, the question of when enough time had passed for Hollywood to grapple with a national tragedy was a…
There’s a recurring motif in Cassandro where Gael García Bernal’s character, an openly gay luchador, works an outwardly hostile crowd from inside the ring; weathering…
Consistently divisive and successfully provocative, Sebastián Silva had existed in a seemingly charmed space — relative to that of the average, contemporary independent filmmaker —…
When Kenneth Branagh last donned Hercule Poirot’s trademark mustache, the famous detective was chugging down the Nile River on a private cruise ship brimming with…
Romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding was released into a handful of theaters in the spring of 2002 and became a word-of-mouth sleeper, eventually…
There are a few different films all struggling for screen time in Noah Collier & Emily MacKenzie’s new documentary Carpet Cowboys, including a treatise on…
Like a political cartoon stretched out to feature length and shot like a German Expressionist film, Pablo Larraín’s El Conde possesses one of the year’s…
Though they lived a millennium and a half apart, Aristotle and Dante Alighieri shared a conception of love that gave rise to most of humanity’s…
An indie horror film about a young woman trying to keep her inner beast at bay, it’s a testament to Jacqueline Castel’s My Animal that…