On the basis of his two solo outings as a writer-director, the filmmaker Zach Cregger has established a bit of a lane to himself in…
Almost as if it were made in response to John Krasinski’s IF, a saccharine fantasy about a motherless young girl who through magical contortions was able…
There’s a certain futility to any critical appraisal of a film like Jim Hosking’s third feature, Ebony & Ivory. That’s not to say there’s a…
In “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema,” André Bazin famously argued that depth-of-field marked a dialectical leap forward in the development of the artform.…
Those who have seen the Zürcher twins’ other works, The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider, may have felt a tension building…
The story of Souleymane (Abou Sangare), a Guinean immigrant fighting for the right to work legally in France, has lately been told millions of times,…
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s newest film, Harvest, begins on the precipice of change. Based on Jim Crace’s novel of the same name, Tsangari’s adaptation is set…
“Arkhitekton” in Greek — “master builder” in English. The world that we humans have created around us is a world of stone; cold, stoic, though…
Entering Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, one is immediately faced with a decision. It’s a decision of considerable importance. Standing in the rotunda, one may either go forward,…
The most reliable formula in action cinema today is having Ma Dong-seok one-punch a bunch of anonymous stuntmen into a wall. After hitting it big…
Originally released in 1980, Night of the Juggler bears all the trappings of an exceptional cult thriller, though it’s one that has never been terribly…
Ask any loving parent what lengths they’d go to protect their own child, and the response of “kill for them” might not sound completely unreasonable…
There’s a heavy, somber pallor that hangs over To Kill a Wolf, writer/director Kelsey Taylor’s debut feature. Working with cinematographer Adam Lee, Taylor films the…
Queen of Bones opens with text evoking silent movie title cards: “folk tales of the great depression.” Whether or not this succeeds in setting us…
You’re probably familiar. But in case you’re not, back in 1982, relatively fresh off the success of Airplane!, creators Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim…
For a particular contingent of American moviegoer — one born in the mid-to-late 1980s, say — Happy Gilmore is something of a sacred cow. Its…
The thing about I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) — itself an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel — is that it already…
Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a garish, confused mess of a horror-comedy straining for cult-audience validation (see: the three-day Fathom Events rollout). It plays like the…
Dogs occupy a unique, almost sacred, space in our lives. They are not technically human, yet they embody qualities — loyalty, affection, intelligence — that…
When 20-something pianist Donna (Dana Namerode) receives a diagnosis of bone cancer in her hand, she explores different avenues for physical and mental health treatment,…
In 2004, Brad Bird and Pixar released The Incredibles, which at the time was considered one of the best superhero films ever made and —…