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…
If one were being deliberately reductive, the logline for Dutch director-screenwriter Rosanne Pel’s sophomore film Donkey Days could read as a near-exact twin of Joachim…
In the first half of Fantasy, Isabel Pagliai’s feature debut, it is easy to become fixated on Fatty, the Calico-mix cat who lives with the…
The international breakthrough of All We Imagine as Light in 2024, which was the first Indian film to play in Cannes competition in 30 years,…
When you see a lot of movies at film festivals, you begin to notice certain patterns in the cinema as a whole. One such pattern…
Originally popularized and coveted by the Western world, the esteemed traveler cut a formidable figure for its elites: the rationalists for their admiration of breathtaking…
Much digital ink has been spilled over whether now, more than ever, we need positive queer images in popular media. As the world skids further…
Clemente Castor’s Cold Metal is a difficult film to wrap one’s head around. It’s a small-scale, profoundly opaque object that rejects traditional narrative in favor…
Social realism is alive and well and living in Belgium — but you knew that already, given that it’s the Dardennes’ home court. It may…
If, with Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino set a 21st century standard for leisurely, sun-dappled, queer coming-of-age films, then, nearly a decade later,…
Why are filmmakers today so afraid of melodrama? Many’s a recent feature, from the acclaimed (Celine Song’s Past Lives) to the less so (Luca Guadagnino’s…
Where do you go once you’ve reached the top? By 2007, Juliette Binoche was running out of peaks to summit: she’d won international acclaim with…
It’s easy to be lulled by the hum of rolling highways and pleasant conversation; they abound in Sebastian Brameshuber’s new film, London, which follows Bobby…
About a million Russians have left their country since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fleeing the draft and/or political repercussions for dissent.…
Burak Çevik’s films often use a narrative framework as a jumping-off point for formal experimentation. This is perhaps best seen in his 2019 feature Belonging,…
Amit Dutta’s fluid conception of art forms extends to the way he conceives of artists as well. Not bound by standardized, snobbish definitions that often…
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2026’s Sundance Film Festival, To Hold a Mountain, from directors Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, holds its observational…
Alain Gomis’ new film achieves something both impressive and paradoxical. It is simultaneously intimate and panoramic. Dao is built around two very large family gatherings,…
Rithy Panh, the relentless chronicler of the atrocities perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, shifts his attention to another kind of destruction in his latest film,…
Sixto Muñoz lives alone, but he likes to visit town to have a few beers (which his friends are happy to buy for him) and…
At the center of Justin Jinsoo Kim’s And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was lies an impulse to excavate the past through memory.…