In “Wuthering Heights” — as Emerald Fennell sees it — death and ecstasy rest on the head of the same pin. Its opening credits are…
A severely schematic crime thriller that paints a rather stereotypical picture of the Brazilian underworld but is chiefly about how many long, unbroken, and overhead…
The title of Bart Layton’s Crime 101 is a play on the film’s plot primarily transpiring on and around the 101 Freeway — a major interstate highway…
Filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli took the 2020 TIFF Midnight Madness crowd by storm with their stunning debut feature Violation, an extremely dark,…
Since 2018’s Mirai enjoyed substantial international acclaim, and was nominated for an Academy Award, Mamoru Hosoda seems to be on a bit of a Western…
Luc Besson, famed French director of Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, returns from making the relatively obscure June and John (2025) to release…
Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s 2023 no-budget feature New Strains was one of the few films interested in documenting the psychological reality of living through…
Picking up where Chapters 1 and 2 left off, The Strangers: Chapter 3, the final entry Renny Harlin’s ultimately limp reboot trilogy, has arrived for…
Some might find this fact difficult to stomach, but there was a fairly recent time in horror movie history where the Saw franchise reigned supreme…
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,…
It’s June 1993 in rural Nigeria. Remi and his younger brother Akin (real-life brothers Chibuike Marvelous Egbo and Godwin Egbo) are bickering, eating food and…
Maryam Touzani’s Calle Málaga won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival’s new Spotlight Section, and the film is accordingly an audience-pleaser. Following her…
Reflecting on the publication of his novel Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem, Adam Mars-Jones noted that he intended his darkly humorous narrative of…