In 2017’s Summer 1993, director Carla Simón’s feature debut, a young girl is sent to live with her mother’s family in Barcelona after her mother’s…
In his trilogy of novels about the adolescence and adulthood of a young man closely modeled on himself, Edmund White distilled the essence of what…
Immediately obvious in Supergirl is that it seems determined not to be seen as merely a sequel to, or a full spinoff of, James Gunn’s…
There’s no place like home. For Joe (Seth Rogen), home has metastasized into such a calamity that it’s all he can think about when he’s…
Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave swiftly announces itself as a musico-political spectacle. Music as activism, activism as music, but mostly — and sorely — musical activism.…
We’ve had plenty of animal attack movies over the years. Of course, Jaws is the granddaddy of killer sharks, spawning dozens of knockoffs of all…
Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…
Bouchra, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s unusual, surprising, and often moving debut feature, centers on the relationship between its eponymous character, a queer Moroccan filmmaker…
Filmmaker Julian Schnabel returns to a familiar topic with his In the Hand of Dante… sort of. The painter-turned-acclaimed filmmaker has dedicated most of his…
If the end of the world left the children in charge, what kind of future might they build? This question simmers underneath a surface of…
Stardom is a morbid enterprise, and the life of its luminaries always has a tacit alliance with their expiration date. Often, fame intensifies upon death,…
In Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, the titular outlaw of English folklore spends his final years wandering the moors of 13th-century Britain, trying…
On its surface, Haifa al-Mansour’s Unidentified is a crime thriller that follows a recent divorcee, Nawal (Mila Al Zahrani), as her true crime obsession emboldens…
Before diving into any of the specific details of Citizen Vigilante, let’s get straight into what the film actually is: racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop…
John Early is a tightrope artist. There’s little about his debut feature, Maddie’s Secret, that should work. With the DNA of a comedy sketch, Maddie’s…
“All films are time travel films, and all films are ghost films,” said filmmaker Mark Jenkin at a post-screening Q&A for the New York Film…
Girls Like Girls is gay, and (mostly) proud of it. The film is Hayley Kiyoko’s adaptation of her novel of the same title, which was…
Shark attack movies are clearly trying to mount some sort of cinematic comeback, with 2026 having already seen the releases of Deep Water and Thrash.…
The release of a full-length, stop-motion animated film is a relatively infrequent occasion, given the amount of labor and resources necessary to produce one. I…
Much digital ink has been spilled over whether now, more than ever, we need positive queer images in popular media. As the world skids further…
In John Carney’s latest work of music-centric cinema, Paul Rudd is Rick Power, frontman for The Bride & Groove, a Dublin-based wedding band. They tear…