For a particular contingent of American moviegoer — one born in the mid-to-late 1980s, say — Happy Gilmore is something of a sacred cow. Its…
The thing about I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) — itself an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel — is that it already…
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 and…
Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a garish, confused mess of a horror-comedy straining for cult-audience validation (see: the three-day Fathom Events rollout). It plays like the…
Dogs occupy a unique, almost sacred, space in our lives. They are not technically human, yet they embody qualities — loyalty, affection, intelligence — that…
When 20-something pianist Donna (Dana Namerode) receives a diagnosis of bone cancer in her hand, she explores different avenues for physical and mental health treatment,…
In 2004, Brad Bird and Pixar released The Incredibles, which at the time was considered one of the best superhero films ever made and —…
After arguably seeing his fame peak in the early days of Covid — on the back of starring turns in Big Time Adolescence and The…
You might not assume it, but the handsome, boyish, 19-year-old Leonardo (Manfredi Marini) at the center of Giovanni Tortorici’s refreshingly pulse-tapping debut, Diciannove, doesn’t feel…
Sometimes, all it takes is a platform. The rubble of an abandoned village can be a platform for a flag, the flag a symbol of…
What remains of the video store today is a boutique novelty. Unless you happen to live in a neighborhood hip enough to indulge in cinephilic…
Back in the winter, the film Companion used the premise of a young “couple” taking their first trip together to a secluded house in the countryside as…
Alexandra Simpson’s debut feature, No Sleep Till, is hardly a typical disaster movie. There’s no panicked fleeing, no looting, no screaming and crying. Her approach…
Pilgrims, Laurynas Bareiša’s previous feature, was an accomplished debut that explored a man’s inability to move past the senseless killing of his brother. It showed…
Nothing elicits an emotional response quite like a shock. Things hit harder when you haven’t had time to prepare for them — the funniest jokes,…
What can we understand as agency, for individuals placed into contexts that are fabricated in dehumanizing forms? How does the capacity for someone to willfully…
A goat gives birth; a paraplegic man’s soul leaves his body. In between, life and the flesh are one. Such appears to be the order…
The exorcism and possession subgenre has been at a creative stall basically since its heyday in the 1970s. The panoply of genre tropes looks more…
Over the course of her filmography, Jessica Sarah Rinland has demonstrated an unusually perceptive eye for the natural world and its inhabitants. Her camera’s fascination…
When the world turned to shit approximately five years ago, satire marched ahead, determined to outpace the banality of lived reality. Old-school broadcasts and appeals…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been arguably the greatest filmmaker of the last decade, his works across this period constituting one of the most impressive contemporary bodies…