More an indictment of pop referentiality than a true reflection of psyche, the opening minute of Katarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr edges toward a pat diagnosis of…
No civilization without land was the starting point of Carl Schmitt’s definition of the nomos — the measure by which land “in a particular order…
The starting point for anything one might observe about the nature of money in the world today needs run, if one is to be sensible,…
Director Chloé Robichaud’s film Two Women presents as a tale of sexual liberation, wherein two Montréal women trapped in sputtering marriages pursue casual sex that…
The current acclaim for Canadian cinema is, like many attempts to promote a new wave, a snapshot of a rising generation that aside from nationality…
Critic Filipe Furtado recently wrote a piece extolling the virtues of low-budget genre filmmaking, emphasizing how certain action specialists tend to compensate for a lack…
Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body, a remake of violent Norwegian comedy The Trip, concerns a married couple (Jason Segel and Samara Weaving) who each…
The trouble with effective satire is that sometimes the original mark already exists in such a heightened state that any attempts to ridicule, undermine, or…
There may not be a scientific definition of a “Sundance” movie, but Cole Webley’s debut feature Omaha could go some way to inscribing one into…
One of the biggest British hits when it was released in the country last year, I Swear has finally made its way to U.S. theaters.…
What a strange thing, the Olympics. In 1896, with the tools for globalization just barely on the horizon, the world (or, rather, Greece, leveraging its…
No, it’s not the Brendan Fraser vehicle, nor is Boris Karloff back from the dead; Tom Cruise, mercifully, is nowhere to be found. An original…
Can there be any reward for tolerance in an intolerant world? Fatih Akin’s Amrum opens with the arrival of German refugees to the titular German…
Two things can be true at once — a simple fact of life many folks still struggle to accept. Even with his reputation perpetually tarnished…
Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic, the final installment in the Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker’s Cairo trilogy following 2017’s The Nile Hilton Incident and 2022’s Cairo Conspiracy,…
In 2018, Saudi Arabia opened its first movie theaters in more than three decades. Just a few short years later, production began on the $150…
It’s almost always fun when a movie hops genres, changing up the structure and tropes you thought it was operating under until you realize it…
Isolationism breeds a variety of affects that spur those involved toward indelibly discrete action. In many, Sho Miyake’s latest, Two Seasons, Two Strangers, courses the…
If Peter Farrelly acquired any auteurist pretensions after undeservedly winning the Oscar for Best Picture with his insincere race-relations road movie Green Book (2018), he…
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.…