The popular conception of sexuality in America has doubtless expanded since the turn of the century, but its depiction on mainstream screens somehow has…
Mani Ratnam is considered one of India’s finest directors, particularly among those working in the Tamil language, and is coming off a two-part critical…
Decades in the making but arguably being released five years prematurely, 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to 2002’s seminal, lo-fi zombie film 28…
Cinematographer Bill Pope must have done something awful in 2022. Maybe he ran over some studio executive’s cat or perhaps his children beat out…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that…
To coin an adage, directing a Stephen King adaptation is like getting a tattoo: it’s difficult to stop at one. The only thing harder…
It’s hard to pinpoint when Wes Anderson The Brand caught up with Wes Anderson The Director. It might have been some time around his…
With an official title like From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, it seems like some kind of warning is being telegraphed. Spinning off…
John Maclean’s first feature, the grimy, spare Western Slow West, established him as a clever manipulator of genre tropes, and capable of stretching a…
It’s somewhat fitting that Andrew Dominik’s second documentary subject, after multiple projects with English musician Nick Cave, is Bono. Cave and the U2 frontman…
Most legacy sequels frustrate in their imprisonment to the original films. The character cameos, repeated iconic lines, and mystery linkages between the past and…
War stains the soul. It can haunt its victims like a specter, and the appropriately titled Ghost Trail centers on a scarred man who…
Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov has directed 15 films in the last 12 years, a breakneck pace to rival even Hong Sang-soo. Not many seem…
Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are…
Do you have two hours to kill and enjoy, say, breezy, brazenly derivative adventure movies? Well then, buckle up, because your prime weekend streaming…
Walt Disney Pictures is not well. It’s been a hot minute, hour, fortnight since the house that Walt built has delivered a legitimately impressive…
Having cemented his status with 2017’s Sweet Country — a beguiling if sometimes schematic topography of race and coloniality in the outback — as…
On the most basic level, Graham Swon’s second feature, An Evening Song (for three voices), could be called a pre-war domestic melodrama, a gothic…