Resurrection is a haunting work of psychological brutality, far superior to the metaphor-heavy trauma horror it’s being incorrectly lumped in with. Rebecca Hall has steadily…
Both Sides of the Blade is a work of true entropy, a unique film in Denis’ oeuvre that leverages a newfound sense of languor…
Official Competition is a decidedly strange film — formally impressive, off-kilter in its humor, and often incisive with its observations of the state of cinema.…
Happening is a film of intense linearity and physicality, but it leaves one wishing for a film that had perhaps widened its scope for…
Paris, 13th District succeeds in communicating something distinctly, relatably human, even as it falters to present captivating drama. There’s something particularly soul-crushing about being…
Despite its workaday subject matter, Cow is still recognizably an Andrea Arnold film, mostly for the better. Depending on your perspective — and depending…
Nitram is the worst sort of armchair investigation — one that reopens wounds it doesn’t bother to heal. The True History of the Kelly Gang…
Huda’s Salon uses genre trappings as a pretext to gesture at loose connections to reality rather than meaningfully developing anything. The crucial difference between…
Catch the Fair One doesn’t quite pull off its untidy ending, but it’s still an impressive bit of viscerally and emotionally pummeling cinema. Integrating the…
There’s plenty to admire in The Novice, but a surfeit of ambition and an overreliance on certain aggressive formal qualities bogs down its execution.…
Benedetta is as bawdy as any Verhoeven on paper, but the director’s uncharacteristically meek directorial approach renders the film far tamer than it should…
Unstuck in Time offers intimate portraiture of its subject without ever resorting to apologia or hagiography. In 1982, a young Robert B. Weide wrote to…
The Beta Test is a bold advancement for Jim Cummings as a filmmaker, supplementing his films’ familiar character with greater formal skill and precise critique.…
Bergman Island is an intentionally ephemeral, frictionless bit of meta-fiction, conceptually justifiable but all the more frustrating for it. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island is, quite…
The Nowhere Inn smartly softens its meta conceit with some winking humor, but doesn’t interrogate any of its ideas or rise above mere brand management.…
Dating abd New York offers sporadic pleasures, but can’t shake loose its obvious cribbing of familiar cinematic influences. Dating and New York, Jonah Feingold’s…
Some pacing issues occasionally upset We Need to Do Something’s otherwise effective tone, but it remains a solid, low-ceiling genre exercise. We Need to…
John and the Hole mistakes ambiguity for depth at every opportunity, forgoing actual psychological probing in favor of shallow posturing. Tapped by Cannes for its…