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Long whispered about by in-the-know cinephiles but seldom seen in American theaters, Greek director Antoinetta Angelidi’s long overdue U.S. debut comes courtesy of Prismatic…
A quince tree in full fruit, September 30. This is the moment. Antonio López García prepares his canvas; he sets his easel; he colors…
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Viewed from one angle, Kevin Jerome Everson’s eclipse studies are as anomalous as the phenomena they capture. Everson’s body of work documents Black life…
A woman speaks French as the top third of the image reveals itself to the audience, the rest of the screen blank. A man…
Diane Arbus once described horror as the relationship between sex and death. With the exception of pornography, no other film genre brings us closer…
In his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was not considered one of the great composers. He was known for his virtuosic ability, but his vast…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be…
Danis Tanović might be the most personal, visually compelling, and thematically thoughtful political auteur working in European cinema. And regrettably, his name will largely…
There always seems to be an imaginary asterisk placed on discussions centered around films made by filmmakers who have been pushed into a Kafkaesque…
The superficial recreations of the Wes Anderson AestheticTM have kickstarted a new metric in art evaluation based on their ease of A.I. appropriation. While…
“Considered mechanically, a duck is not an efficient machine.” So observes Vague McMenamy, an amateur inventor living in pre-industrial Glasgow who resolves to improve…
Any discussion of the 20th century’s most brutal novels in American literature must include Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) and Bret Easton Ellis’s American…
Before the colonization of New England by the forebears of the American empire, what would come to be known as Rhode Island today was…
“If they echo our sense that our bodies are liable to become dead, intractable objects, […] puppets also play out a fantasy of surviving…
One of the many privileges of attending a film festival lies in watching the programs of shorts, cleverly curated such that one does not…
On the occasion of Paul McCartney’s 80th birthday, I decided to burden myself with the unforgiving task of writing about the Beatles. After trying…