When first introduced in About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), an art teacher, has been in the remote village of…
In his critical study “Discourse and the Novel,” Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin described narrative fiction as a process by which individual characters are defined…
When it was released back in late 2021, Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the director’s first feature film since the dissolution of the long,…
In the ongoing writing of the history of film, only a few summative propositions have ossified into matters of fact. The notion that the introduction…
Considering the wealth of nightmarish aesthetic possibilities, it’s difficult to understand why stop motion animation isn’t more heavily utilized within the realm of horror. Sure,…
Matteo Garrone’s new film Io Capitano includes a map of the exact overland path taken by its two main characters during the end credits, charting the indirect route from Dakar to…
It seems that — at least in the past few years — a considerable number of films have proven their ability to manifest new sensibilities…
Speeding right past Truffaut’s famous “there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie” dictum, William Eubank’s new gung-ho military action-thriller Land of Bad declares itself…
God knows it’s hard to get noticed in the indie film scene these days, which is why Jon Bass’ new experiment in self-releasing warrants some…
Jennifer Lopez, in recent years, has made a comeback from her early career to new levels of critical and commercial success. Lopez dominated Netflix streaming…
Writing on the difficulties of representing addiction, Leslie Jamison notes that the process of sobriety is seen as a “tedious addendum” to the riveting blaze…
It’s been over 20 years since the legendary HBO miniseries Band of Brothers captivated you and your dad with its scrupulous, detailed, and reverent depiction…
It’s difficult to think of a more cynical, creatively stagnant genre than the celebrity musical biopic. Seriously, even the comic book movies will produce the…
Written and directed by Erblin Nushi, I Love You More is a delicate film which explores the heartbreak of queer adolescence. The film centers on…
Kimi Takesue’s third feature film is a fraught, respectably reflexive process in objectification. Utilizing the much ado of the tourism industry as our subject (through…
It wouldn’t be unfair to observe that plenty of indie films today seem more concerned with the representative modes of filmmaking and storytelling than anything…
That hunk in the romance novel you’re reading — what if he was real and ready to mingle? That’s the entertaining and confident premise of…
Thanks to recent advancements, space travel, once reserved for the world’s elite pilots and engineers, has become something any person with bookoo cash can achieve.…
There’s no dearth of movies about prehistoric man; stories of the earliest days of (pre)civilization span the campy histrionics of something like 10,000 BC to the more…
The familiar quietude of vacant alleys, secret crooks, and empty restaurants; those shared moments of unspoken reminiscence and silenced discovery. With Here, Bas Devos trains…
Diablo Cody is at it again with Lisa Frankenstein, the feature directing debut of actress Zelda Williams that finds the screenwriter returning to the thematically…