Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a sprawling, expansive work that functions simultaneously as familial remembrance, a documentary on Black intellectualism in the 20th and…
Rian Johnson brought the whodunnit into the 21st century, for better or worse. Knives Out revived it, imbuing the subgenre with the cozy vibes we…
A single work of art may, or may not, be able to change the world, but it can surely change a mind. To those unfamiliar…
It’s June 1993 in rural Nigeria. Remi and his younger brother Akin (real-life brothers Chibuike Marvelous Egbo and Godwin Egbo) are bickering, eating food and…
Sincerity is dead at the movies, and this fall season has treated us to a preponderance of autopsies as proof — Bugonia, A House of…
Perhaps we’ve been sold an overly literal version of heaven when we jump at the chance to live forever. While theologians balk at how transactional…
Sequel naming conventions can be a funny thing. The majority will opt for merely adding the next sequential numeral — Roman or otherwise — while…
YouTubers, TikTokers, and Letterboxd users made a major fuss over the desaturated color-grading of Jon M. Chu’s musical Wicked: Part One, turning its visual palette…
Melancholy, that inexplicable feeling of pensiveness, constitutes the centerpiece of memory, at least when memory divulges itself to its owner and defers all fantasies of…
Zodiac Killer Project is, put simply, a strange undertaking. Charlie Shackleton’s expansively stripped-down documentary emerged from a thwarted attempt to adapt Lyndon E. Lafferty’s 2012…
It’s quite obvious at this point that Netflix has firmed up their annual Christmas lineup formula by tugging at millennials’ soft spots via a mix…
Sylvia Chang has been one of the more under-appreciated forces in international film for almost 50 years now. Beginning her career as an actress in…
Society has always had something of a morbid curiosity with true crime. From Jack the Ripper and In Cold Blood to the near-constant stream of…
Ken Burns is more closely associated with the tweed jacket crowd than the bohemian, blowing dust off antiquarian events so that public access television has…
Left-Handed Girl is a movie of debts: of money owed to hospitals and landlords, of time owed to family, of the obligations of history. For…
Some day, our future will be someone else’s past. Arco, the titular co-protagonist of illustrator, comic book author, and short film director Ugo Bienvenu’s debut…
Stephen King wrote his novel The Running Man in 1972, and it was published a decade later under his pseudonym Richard Bachmann. At the time…
The cabin in the woods: as reliable a setup as there is in all of horror. The isolation of new lovers leaving the world and…
“Is this what the end of the world feels like?” The question is posed from one beleaguered raver to another, on a school bus somewhere…
“What’s a pretty girl like you,” asks Don King, the all-time boxing promoter played by Chad L. Coleman, “doing getting punched in the face?” Christy…
“People are cheap, water is expensive.” So says Reza (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil), the mysterious and curiously educated drifter who stumbles into Ali’s (Ekin Koç) withered…