The Plant from the Canaries The canary, a songbird of the finch family, occupies an eminent place in avian symbolism, not least for its melodious…
The Dead of Winter The cold is often a conduit for ardent symbolism, whether in the frozen recesses of repressed memories or in the merciless…
Dry Leaf Seeking to reduce a filmmaker’s chief thematic preoccupation is usually a waste of time, for any one worth their stuff works in a…
Obex One of the least consequential but more intriguing facets of our age of technology acceleration is watching which flavor of tech nostalgia will be…
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari has used cinema to mine the fractured, seemingly incomplete nature of her family history since her first short film, Nine Behind.…
The House with Laughing Windows (1976) — Pupi Avati Giallo, the popular genre of Italian horror, can in truth be many things, though it tends…
Flush Setting one’s low-budget genre film in a single setting is a time-honored tradition, a money-saving maneuver that makes for a simple calling-card exercise but…
Sham If anyone can make a great Cancel Culture movie, it would have to be Takashi Miike, right? Sham is based on a true story,…
Abortion Party Aside from the infamous “Barry Lyndon x ‘a lot’ by 21 Savage” edit that has been circulating on X since last year, the…
Together In Michael Shanks’ body-horror-comedy Together, the recently-engaged but longtime-dating couple of Millie and Tim (played by real-life spouses and frequent creative collaborators Alison Brie…
Lilim An overwhelming sense of familiarity clings to Mikhail Red’s Lilim, which liberally deploys Gothic and folk horror tropes without grasping their inherent power. The…
Queerpanorama Writer-director Jun Li received a degree in journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and in his self-referential film Queerpanorama, the journalistic impulse…
Copper In director Nicolás Pereda’s Copper, Lázaro (Pereda regular Lázaro Rodríguez) discovers a corpse by the side of the road. It’s unusual enough for him…
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Drifting Laurent The world of Drifting Laurent, the sophomore feature by directors Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon, is not too dissimilar from that…
Kontinental ’25 One would be hard-pressed to identify a film director on the world stage who has done a better job of articulating our historical…
Serpent’s Path Kiyoshi Kurosawa is our great purveyor of modern ennui, a chronicler of creeping existential dread as the world we have created now threatens…
Every summer, film obsessives make the pilgrimage to Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato — a week of restorations, rediscoveries, and archival oddities projected in cinemas…
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard A fabulistic streak tints the proceedings of The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard, David Verbeek’s ninth feature,…
Natchez Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival,…