Purists will surely find something to cavil at in Aneil Karia’s latest spin on William Shakespeare’s greatest and longest play, Hamlet, as is so often…
Existing at the nexus of fashion, popular music, and horror, David Lowery’s Mother Mary, a multi-genre whatsit, proudly wears its pretentiousness on its (couture) sleeve.…
Sophy Romvari has used cinema to mine the fractured, seemingly incomplete nature of her family history since her first short film, Nine Behind. In that…
It wasn’t too surprising to watch Bob Odenkirk transition from a comedian to a sturdy dramatic actor; that kind of thing happens all the time.…
“The working man is a sucker” — so reads the opening title card of Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny,…
Josh Heap’s City Wide Fever is the best kind of micro-budget, DIY indie film, one that doesn’t attempt to hide its poverty of means but leans into…
Excepting the newly bicurious and the chronically polyamorous, most people will adore Erupcja for the wrong reasons. Pete Ohs’ sixth narrative feature has, on the…
“What are the stats on shark movies? Still just the one good one?” That’s a direct quote from perennial funnyman Paul F. Tompkins, made during…
Having decided myself to migrate from a Toronto suburb to Montreal in my young adulthood shortly after hearing Visions for the first time, I am…
In the new Apple TV original film Outcome, Keanu Reeves stars as Reef Hawk, a hugely successful actor emerging from a five-year hiatus that found…
Few people are immune to the power of a tale thrillingly told. So says Buffalo Bill Cody, narrator of Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo…
The most frustrating thing about Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o Morte! is how quickly the novelty of re-creation wears off. The sight of three soldiers staring…
“You sound cool talking out your ass,” Bruce (Anthony Oberbeck) quips to his best friend and roommate, Simon (newcomer Tristan Turner), a struggling filmmaker. In…
In the age of virality, who will remember the snuff film? 1978’s Faces of Death, a documentary-style gorefest, is the stuff of dorm-room legend. “They…
There are two — or if someone is feeling incredibly ambitious, 101 — films to review in Thierry Frémaux’s Lumière, Le Cinéma, a cine-documentary exclusively…
Kazuya Shiraishi’s Bushido is a fascinating clash of visual styles and familiar genre tropes rendered fresh via a strange, languid dramaturgy. Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) is a…
Against the notion of cinematic auteurism, it has sometimes been thought enough to respond that, after all, cinema is a collaborative medium to which certain…
Chaos reigns in Yasuhiro Aoki’s anarchic, wildly imaginative feature directorial debut ChaO, a whirlwind exploration of the breadth of storytelling potential in animated film. Almost…
Why 2025 was a year rich in films with purgatorial motifs — everything from Oliver Laxe’s Sirât to Alex Ullom’s It Ends — is a…
When is the ideal time to learn your significant other’s most shameful secret? The new comedy The Drama argues the best time is “never” and…
Living in Brazil in a post-Bolsonaro world clearly feels dystopian to director Gabriel Mascaro, who has now made two consecutive films about a near-future where…