Leave it to Gus Van Sant to find the homoeroticism in the Tony Kiritsis story. The man who wanted five million dollars and an apology…
As 2025 comes to a close and publications have all indulged the annual tradition of top 10 best -of lists, the Hollywood machine now kicks…
It is tempting, in times like these, to ascribe to an archetype its particular incarnation, to historicize it one way or another. Such might be…
In recent years, viewers have been treated to a consistent wave of music biopics, including films like Elvis or A Complete Unknown or just this…
Throughout Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ documentary Cover-Up, Seymour “Sy” Hersh, claims that he does not psychoanalyze himself. The irony is that the legendary journalist…
There’s a mighty thin line between minimalism and indolence, and Jim Jarmusch has walked it his entire career. When you choose minimalism, you amplify the…
“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” Though it would not be difficult to imagine, these words were not…
Those inclined to immediately exit the theater or press stop on their remotes the instant a film concludes would do well to take a beat…
There has been no shortage of Silent Night, Deadly Nights over the years. The original film, released in 1984, proudly wore its ax-toting Santa Claus…
Kim Byung-woo’s fifth directorial effort, The Great Flood, first shows An-na (Kim Da-mi) resignedly trying to quell her six-year-old son Ja-in’s (Kwon Eun-seong) insistent and…
In a moment in history increasingly submerged in a swill of irony and pessimism, James L. Brooks’ insistence on goodness feels like the last burst…
Adapted from Freida McFadden’s BookTok sensation and starring two of Hollywood’s most in-demand blonde actresses in Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried (both of whom also…
Now three movies and seven years into his career as a filmmaker, the Philly transplant/West Village resident Bradley Cooper has featured a singer, a composer,…
“The voices on the phone are real.” So states the caption that appears on screen early in Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab,…
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…
That George W. Bush’s war on terror was a farce is all but written history. The craven hunt for oil under the guise of WMDs…
Pedro Lemebel, the writer who chronicled Chilean queer life throughout the fall of the Pinochet regime, the rise of democracy, and the AIDS epidemic, proclaimed…
Having propelled himself to cinephilic fame with the mesmerizing Kaili Blues (2015) and, more recently, an audaciously mind-bending interpretation of dreams in 2018’s Long Day’s…
A life’s linearity is only a biproduct of meticulously constructed narrative. In hindsight, things seem straightforward: clinging to your older sister’s pantlegs, you survive a…
There’s an overly edited, scored, and produced version of Sam Abbas’ Europe’s New Faces that would have taken the ongoing awards season by storm. Its…
Poverty and opulence, the pastoral and the high-tech, war and peace, childhood and adulthood. Opposite ends of a variety of spectrums meet, and sometimes clash,…