The first shot of Julian Chou’s film Blind Love is both jarring and literal: a close-up of a doctor draining a cyst under a twitching…
Near the end of The Gas Station Attendant, filmmaker Karla Murthy admits that she is “stuck in a time loop” while she sifts through boxes…
Nestled in the rural midwestern town of Three Oaks, Michigan, the largest flag day parade in the nation is a surreal scene of unabashed Americana,…
Because cinema is an art form defined by duration and, thus, its unique ability to depict movement, capturing human bodies in motion has always been…
Steven Spielberg’s latest venture into science fiction is also perhaps his most extensive venture into examining the properties and powers of the cross-cut. Emily Blunt…
In 2023, a little film called Barbie made boffo box office, raking in well over a billion dollars and becoming something of a global phenomenon.…
It makes sense that the era in which movies are constantly dissected, parodied, and memeified through Letterboxd logs, Instagram Reels, and TikTok videos also marked…
A moment of peculiar poignancy opens Erige Sehiri’s sensitive, if somewhat unremarkable, Promised Sky. A young girl is being bathed by three women as she…
In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular art…
Ol Parker is no stranger to a feel-good star vehicle. He wrote The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel, and directed Mamma Mia! Here…
At first glance, Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Carolina Caroline is the sort of film online cinephiles love to bemoan “they don’t make anymore,” a grounded crime…
Another World offers a reprieve from Western visions of a dreary, Catholic purgatory. “Another World” — both the film’s title and its proper name for…
Chivalry is very much not dead in the modern world: just look at the title of Thea Sharrock’s latest, and be impressed by the double…
Actor-turned-filmmakers seem to be the highlight of the 2025 edition of Cannes, but Official Competition newcomer Hafsia Herzi — already with two feature films under…
Acquired by HBO and released just in time for Emmy consideration, writer-director Jim Rash’s new film Miss You, Love You is a dialogue-driven two-hander that…
They may be a dying breed, but filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and Sean Baker remain steadfast in their commitment to shooting all of…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: after witnessing the senseless slaughter of her parents, a young woman barely escapes with her life and…
The pursuit of meaning in life is a negatory one. The more one seeks understanding, the more mystery one discovers. The more one learns to…
A woman, beautiful and a touch removed, travels to Switzerland from Argentina to accept an award. She throws the glass statuette in the bathroom trash,…
As someone whose first airplane experience was a slightly traumatic flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis not long after 9/11, it was a perplexing experience to…
In an age of rapid acceleration and environmental decay, the act of preservation remains a preeminent concern — not only for the ecologist, but also…