Let’s imagine for a second the the potential recent states of mind of Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. Both are relatively fresh off some enormous…
It’s a sign of great writing when you can identify everything you love and hate about a character, but can’t decide whether you love or…
Macon Blair’s new film arrives with the title Idiots, but it began life, and even premiered, under the name The Shitheads. That any semblance of…
Marianne Elliott is an extraordinary theater director. Modernist and (tastefully) ostentatious in her staging, she never loses sight of the soft, squishy human heart at…
Rafael Manuel’s debut feature Filipiñana should go down as one of this decade’s great sweaty films. The humidity of its Philippines setting is touched with…
A life sentence would seem to afford you a good deal of thinking time. But for Akutsu, a former yakuza facing his last days on…
Crows Are White is sharpest when its images expose what director Ahsen Nadeem’s narration would prefer to soften. It is least convincing when, at the…
Third verse, same as the first. Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 rage-zombie opus Train to Busan was a breakout it, largely because of its relentless pace and…
Tucked into his cozy country home in County Wicklow, Ireland, legendary film director John Boorman — of Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, and Excalibur fame —…
Love takes miles. In 1977, PK Mahanandia, a 23-year-old street artist living in Delhi, met the girl he was sure he was destined to marry.…
Beyond a brief cameo from Lin Shaye as Elise, the soft reset for the Insidious franchise removes the Lambert family from the proceedings, taps yet…
In their book The British B Film, writers Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane describe Bond of Fear, an underseen and worthwhile low-budget crime curio from…
The advent of digital cinematography has been both a blessing and a curse in the history of cinema. For one, it’s made film productions far…
History has always been a dumping ground for those in power. It’s littered with, as the affectless narrator in Chris Marker’s 1983 cine-travelogue Sans Soleil…
“As Rotterdam burns, they study Sanskrit verb forms,” is how one iteration of the famous proverb goes. This version of the maxim targets scholars with…
It makes sense that an author like Enid Blyton might enjoy a resurgence in popularity in times like these. War, political turmoil, the looming threat…
It feels like many horror films in recent years begin and end in the pitch meeting. A kooky premise is introduced, funding is secured, and…
45 years after an environmental catastrophe has emptied the sea around Rio de Janeiro, the city’s main entertainment is a televised series of lethal parkour…
A recurring image from Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares calls to mind John Ford. In The Searchers, the darkness that frames the bookend shots…
Documentarian Poh Si Teng’s directorial debut American Doctor follows three American physicians who traveled to Gaza to practice medicine at Nasser Hospital at various points…
Ambition can be slippery in the hands of the stoner. With her debut feature, The Wrong Girls, Dylan Meyer sets her aspirations at the height…