The most frustrating thing about Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o Morte! is how quickly the novelty of re-creation wears off. The sight of three soldiers staring…
“You sound cool talking out your ass,” Bruce (Anthony Oberbeck) quips to his best friend and roommate, Simon (newcomer Tristan Turner), a struggling filmmaker. In…
In the age of virality, who will remember the snuff film? 1978’s Faces of Death, a documentary-style gorefest, is the stuff of dorm-room legend. “They…
Against the notion of cinematic auteurism, it has sometimes been thought enough to respond that, after all, cinema is a collaborative medium to which certain…
Chaos reigns in Yasuhiro Aoki’s anarchic, wildly imaginative feature directorial debut ChaO, a whirlwind exploration of the breadth of storytelling potential in animated film. Almost…
Why 2025 was a year rich in films with purgatorial motifs — everything from Oliver Laxe’s Sirât to Alex Ullom’s It Ends — is a…
When is the ideal time to learn your significant other’s most shameful secret? The new comedy The Drama argues the best time is “never” and…
Living in Brazil in a post-Bolsonaro world clearly feels dystopian to director Gabriel Mascaro, who has now made two consecutive films about a near-future where…
The Super Mario Galaxy movie, a further collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Studios, after 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is bound to be another…
Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz are a fascinating couple, and Jacob Permutter and Manon Ouimet’s new film about their marriage, Two Strangers Trying Not to…
“Listen Mr. Mersault, You’re not the first nor last to kill an Arab. You won’t be faulted for that. Trust me, I know the French…
Writer/director Brandon Daley is juggling a couple of very disparate tones in his new film $POSITIONS, an absurdist comedy that gradually transforms into a white-knuckle…