It’s a bit of a shame that Kaveh Daneshmand’s new film Endless Summer Syndrome comes to us in the wake of Catharine Breillat’s Last…
After spending his early career transfiguring the aesthetics of early Jean-Luc Godard and other works from the French New Wave’s starting days for his…
An aging singer, years past her prime and in failing health after decades of self-abuse, attempts a Pyrrhic comeback. The compressed structure of a…
Detective fiction has deep roots in Gothic horror — look no further than Poe’s seminal “Murders in the Rue Morgue” for confirmation. Horror has…
No one works harder than the Wicked Witch of the West. Since entering the public domain in 1956 with the rest of the characters…
It’s somewhat surprising, given the studio’s history of exploiting their own intellectual properties for all they’re worth, that sequels to their animated features haven’t…
Since his 2011 debut feature Snowtown, Justin Kurzel’s films have displayed a laser-like focus on rough, sometimes savage men and the environments that foster…
Six years ago, Mike Leigh produced his first war film, Peterloo, in which domestic unrest in 1819 led British troops to slaughter protesting civilians.…
As Werewolves opens, we’re informed that the previous year a supermoon event turned everyone who came into contact with moonlight into a werewolf, leading…
David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers opens with a group of four mischievous young kids (portrayed by the real-life siblings Homer, Ulysses, Arlo, and Atlas Janson)…
One of the more indelible sequences in Joshua Oppenheimer’s breakthrough documentary, The Act of Killing, features one of its subjects, the Indonesian paramilitary thug…
When Don (Shea Whigham) gets out of prison, the job he had thought was all set up for him upon release falls through and…
As of the publication of this review, there are 119 Letterboxd reviews logged for Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature The Taste of Mango. In one…
Set in 1992 Peru, Reinas follows Carlos (Gonzalo Molina), a father reconnecting with his daughters Aurora (Luana Vega) and Lucía (Abril Gjurinovic) in the…
The Girl with the Needle, the third feature film by Swedish director Magnus von Horn, wastes no time in announcing to the viewer that…
In the opening moments of Nightbitch, director Marielle Heller appears alongside her star Amy Adams, both playing frustrated mothers in a grocery store. Both…
The title gives it away. Before one even begins watching Paul Schrader’s latest, the tone is effectively set by a little writerly in-joke of…
As titles go, the latest from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof epitomizes a rare fidelity to its subject. The Seed of the Sacred Fig, quite…