In the last decade or two, it often feels like action comedy speaks one language. You can blame Ryan Reynolds if you’d like, or maybe…
A man emerges from the forest, destitute. We follow him as he shambles through the streets, parks, hills, and graveyards of Cluj-Napoca. It’s his last…
From its opening frame, you realize that Caroline Golum isn’t interested in creating a world you’d recognize as “real” in her newest feature, Revelations of…
In just a few short years, it’s been a thrill to watch Alice Maio Mackay’s ascension. From her debut feature, So Vam, to Carnage For…
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid isn’t shy about his disgust toward his home country. A body of work examining Israel with a sense of frustration and…
There’s no denying that a long tradition in horror exists of the unseen being scarier than showing the monsters. Hitchcock was famously quoted as saying,…
“Amanda Kramer Body Swap Movie” is a description that, if you’re familiar with her work, should get that brain firing with possibility. At the very…
Where is the line between genuine love and selfish devotion? That’s the question bubbling at the center of Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s sophomore feature,…
One of the most impressive first features to debut in 2025 was My Father’s Shadow. Screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival,…
In his 35mm short documentary Inang Maynila, James J. Robinson explored the textures of girlhood under the tumult of living in martial law in the…
José Asunción Silva hangs over A Poet like a specter, haunting its messy proceedings. It’s no mistake that Colombia’s most famous poet weighs so heavily.…
Lithuanian-French Jewish philosopher and Shoah survivor Emmanuel Levinas once opined that “the first word of the face is ‘Thou shalt not kill.’” The human face,…
In the years since the latest round of Israeli occupation and destruction of Palestine, the people and lives we see are often the ones who…
With his third feature film, The Things You Kill, Iranian-born filmmaker Alireza Khatami turns his perspicacious gaze away from the overtly political themes of Oblivion…
A promotional email hit my inbox last month that cut through the static fuzz, the torrential downpour of inbox shit, and caught me off guard.…
With Peter Hujar’s Day, writer-director Ira Sachs reteams with actor Ben Whishaw, trading the contemporary Paris of Passages (2023) for 1974 Manhattan. Whishaw stars as…
Following in a famous parent’s footsteps isn’t easy. Do you embrace the legacy? Do you carve out something new entirely? What happens when that famous…
Before she directed a feature of her own, Paula González-Nasser spent years location scouting for shoots in New York City. It turned out to be…
In Mare’s Nest, director Ben Rivers takes us through a world moving beyond language. Inspired, in part, by a one-act play by Don DeLillo, Mare’s…
After a night on the town, her two guy friends, Mitch (Colin Burgess) and Noah (Kevin Grossman), try to take Rayna’s (Blu Hunt) keys so…
With the ever prolific Romanian auteur delivering banger after banger at breakneck speed, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that 2025 is another…