Despite films such as Exotica, The Adjuster, and The Sweet Hereafter capturing the attention of a global audience in the 1990s, Atom Egoyan has…
There have been many movies about baseball, that most American of sports — it is axiomatic. They can be nostalgic, romantic, or even, increasingly,…
Shula (Susan Chardy) makes an early impression in Rungano Nyoni’s newest film, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Driving home from a fancy dinner party,…
Matías Piñeiro is best known for loosely adapting Shakespearean texts via small-scaled, interpersonal dramas: Twelfth Night in Viola; Measure for Measure in Isabella; Love’s…
“This must be my punishment,” narrates Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), as he recalls the frog he tortured in a grade school science class. Mickey…
Thoughtful film curation asks us to consider films in a new light. Alexander Horwath knows this better than most, having served as director of…
In Oz Perkins’ The Monkey, a mechanical wind-up monkey that plays a drum (but don’t call it a toy) serves as a harbinger of…
The title appears like a misnomer. At a tight 67 minutes, and with such glorious irreverence embedded within its form, Broken Rage doesn’t even…
Discerning between the annals and chronicles of yesteryear on one hand, and modern records of history on the other, the historian Hayden White posited…
“How would you define Black genius?” So comes the question from Questlove at the top of his documentary SLY LIVES!, posed to a remarkable…
Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky’s debut feature Rats! is a bit impossible to describe. There’s a story in there, somewhere, involving nuclear weapons, missing…
When Chris Evans left the role of Steve Rogers in Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe turned to his colleague Sam Wilson, aka The…
In Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy play two of the best snipers in the world representing, respectively, the superpowers of…
Like every other movie in the franchise, Michael Morris’ fourth installment, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, begins with a prologue delivered by Bridget…
A few key components of Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down, his full-length directorial debut, may bring to mind another small-scale Irish drama that recently…
In Halfdan Ullman Tøndel’s single-location psychodrama Armand, the titular character is both an elephant in the room and a structuring absence from it. The…
In his recent book Filmmakers Thinking, Adrian Martin quotes the German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky at length regarding the “dialogues” that all filmmakers are engaged…
At its moment of most shine, CollegeHumor was perhaps the ubiquitous Internet content for a certain demo of Internet users. From the vantage of…