If you haven’t heard, Gen Z isn’t getting laid. Sex — who’s having it, and more importantly, who’s not — is paramount in Gregg Araki’s…
Turning 30 fucking sucks. Too old to be considered young, yet too young to have everything figured out (as if anyone ever really has it…
Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature, Jimmy, though it follows James Baldwin at a pivotal moment in his life, cannot be accurately called a biopic. Rather, in its…
18 years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender and 12 years after the conclusion of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra, creators…
July marks the beginning of the second half of 2026, and Killer Shark Movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year, arriving in cinemas and on…
Does ill-discipline equal rebelliousness? If so, then Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella is already one of the best films of the year. Cavalli, who…
Over 40 years and as many movies into his career, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has finally made his first samurai film. Maybe it was the looming shadow…
Hanna Bergholm’s second feature has had two lives. At its world premiere in the Berlinale competition, Nightborn was generally considered a low point in an…
In February 2023, when the world was shaking off COVID-induced anxiety around confined spaces and returning to schools, offices, and restaurants in droves, New Yorkers…
Just as Saltburn cemented the shtick of class satire onto its eye-watering Pinterest moodboards, Karim Aïnouz’s curiously engaging take on the hollow sex lives of…
If you have ever had a chance to see Hadestown live, you won’t wonder at its success, running on Broadway for seven years now despite…
Perhaps the funniest moment in The Dink comes when Dusty (Jake Johnson) aka the Hammer, watches The Graduate with Candace (Mary Steenburgen), not realizing it’s…
Billionaires are a funny breed. A hardworking and often altruistic bunch, they nevertheless carry the scarlet letter of corruption wherever they go: they may do…
The actor Alan Ritchson is a little bit of an anomaly as far as modern leading men go. Best known for playing the title role…
Based on its tepid reception in Cannes earlier this year, one might reasonably expect Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film Sheep in the Box to be a…
The patient sensibilities of Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing wouldn’t normally suggest a paranoid political thriller. And yet, his debut feature, with long takes evoking…
No Wave legend Beth B’s latest project, Glowing, is something like a short story cycle. Beth B previously made eight short works about friends and…
Harmony Korine gleefully threw genre cinema in the deep fryer with the hitman miasma of Aggro Dr1ft (2023). This year, Nicolas Winding Refn took it…
The 1987 release of La Bamba, Luis Valdez’s biopic detailing the life of Chicano musician Ritchie Valens, set a cinematic benchmark. On its face, La…
Christopher Nolan is the movies now. For good or ill, he has been anointed as the ultimate modern filmmaker, a Spielbergian master pushing the medium…
Since the dawn of cinema, the Western has conjured up an abundance of memorable, grizzled outlaws, often out to rob a bank or a train…