Radu Jude is aiming for nothing less than the grand finale of vampire movies with his Dracula, and as a Romanian, why shouldn’t he lay…
The makers of The Perfect Neighbor, which is largely composed of police bodycam and dashcam footage, decided that it was necessary to include a recording…
Desolate, grim, and hopelessly introverted, The Boss’s album Nebraska captures a slice of America that’s as caustic and fresh today as it was in 1981.…
Hurricanes are part of life in South Florida, a season in the calendar as ubiquitous as Summer and Fall; there’s even a rhyme for them,…
The bees are dying. That’s bad news for all of us, but for Teddy (Jesse Plemons), the apiarist at the center of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia,…
Water — or, to put it more precisely, the inherent fluidity of it — is a central motif of freedom in all of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s…
1992’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is B-movie perfection, a secretly elegant story of women in competition that satirizes both maternity and sorority. And…
Given the technical and sociological advancements of the 21st century, countless heretofore unimaginable professions have emerged, especially those focused on relationships and intimacy. One can…
To follow in any well-known filmmaker’s footsteps is a tall order. To not only follow one of the most popular and acclaimed horror directors of…
An 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes can’t be called a total disaster. Nevertheless, Alpha arrived at the 2025 London Film Festival trailing a, shall we…
Simon Stone’s mystery/thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 follows an intriguing, Agatha-adjacent premise: the determined and persistent Laura “Lo” Blacklock (Keira Knightley), a successful investigative…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: If you die in your dream, you die for real. Scott Derrickson’s burgeoning Black Phone series is…
To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson that Edward Berger, cinema’s new…
I Know This Much is True is the 2020s best work of narrative art so far, unjustly buried by its just-exactly-wrong release over the course…
Based on the life of acclaimed 20th century lyricist Lorenz Hart, Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon has as much in common with one of the filmmaker’s…
Despite its almost apologetic title, the latest feature from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bears a highly incendiary load. Not quite a call to arms against…
Needless to say, deliberately titling your film Bone Lake will automatically trigger suggestive connotations about the film’s potential content. Will the feature consist of a…
Critiquing the directorial efforts of well-known actors is trickier than it seems. For example, it’s impossible to ignore, especially at a festival as prestigious and…
The ceiling caves in at the outset of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the Rose Byrne-starring second feature from Mary Bronstein, her first…
For an age in which the threat of nuclear annihilation is so unmistakably present, it strikes one as quite strange how so few contemporary filmmakers…
Vijay Sethupathi is certainly the most versatile and interesting, not to mention basely pleasurable, “superstar” still kicking in the world cinema. His early performances for…