A life’s linearity is only a biproduct of meticulously constructed narrative. In hindsight, things seem straightforward: clinging to your older sister’s pantlegs, you survive a…
There’s an overly edited, scored, and produced version of Sam Abbas’ Europe’s New Faces that would have taken the ongoing awards season by storm. Its…
Poverty and opulence, the pastoral and the high-tech, war and peace, childhood and adulthood. Opposite ends of a variety of spectrums meet, and sometimes clash,…
Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s last film, 2023’s Green Border, was a fact-based drama about migrants who were lured to Belarus by false promises of asylum,…
The mental health epidemic has taken root globally, but only in the U.S. is it likelier to do so behind the barrel of a gun.…
Found footage can be a fickle thing. The best examples of the subgenre are typically a flash in the pan — think genre-defining efforts like…
Bryan Fuller has enjoyed decades of work as a television showrunner. The mastermind behind Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, and Hannibal, Fuller excels at building…
2025 has been quite an exceptional year for theatrical anime distribution. Several months after it first came out, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is still holding…
Of film history’s lost White Whales — the complete Magnificent Ambersons, for example, or The Day the Clown Cried — the eventual release of The…
Michael Showalter, in the past decade, has parlayed his success as a comedic writer and performer into a career as a writer-director of audience-pleasing dramedies…
Married directorial pair Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have consistently risked being hit by the type of criticism that considers “postmodernism” a dirty word. Many…
It’s not uncommon for an international film to obtain a different name in English-speaking markets, and that ends up being the case with Little Trouble…
A former editor-in-chief of mine once told me to write lightly about heavy matters, and heavily about light ones — an adage that easily applies…
Julia Jackman’s sophomore feature 100 Nights of Hero, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel of the same name, has the shape and tone of a…
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino is back on terra firma with La Grazia, his second film to premiere in less than 18 months, following on the heels…
With only two features — 2020’s Shithouse and 2022’s Cha Cha Real Smooth — and a short film under his belt, Cooper Raiff has already…
In Japan, where customs and a sturdy veneer of politeness greatly determine how people interact with one another, there is a strong emphasis on propriety,…
A visual motif that reoccurs throughout Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film, A Private Life, is a spiral staircase. Beyond being chic and Parisian in the way…
“There comes a time when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun.” When Sara Jane Moore attempted and…
With all the upheaval in recent years, it seems like there is only one constant across the film industry: producing an independent animated feature is…
Action films might be the closest argument we still have for cinema as a universal language. It’s the most exportable genre, with stars and filmmakers…