When Smoke Signals arrived in U.S. theaters on the eve of Independence Day, 1998, few could anticipate the wave of Native American art that would…
It’s rather rare for debut features to world premiere in Competition at Cannes. The second-tier lineup, Un Certain Regard, is the festival’s typical launchpad for…
The death of a loved one is fundamental to the human condition, with the ensuing grief making way for an odyssey of pain and acceptance.…
Imbued with plenty of allure and the potential for surprise, friendly get-togethers and familial gatherings in cinema sustain such an appeal that they never outright…
“Democracy dies in darkness,” the slogan of The Washington Post, couldn’t be further removed from the salvational rhetoric witnessed in Brazil with the rise of…
In his debut narrative feature, To a Land Unknown, Danish-Palestinian director and documentarian Mahdi Fleifel takes inspiration from New Hollywood films centering men on the…
Girls is Lena Dunham’s magnum opus. The irony is that she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the HBO classic at the ripe age of…
One of the most interesting things that writer/director Christian Swegal does in his new film Sovereign is forgoing any introductory text scrawl or blatant exposition…
30 minutes into Jem Cohen’s new film Little, Big, and Far, the viewer watches a mostly vacant mall parking lot slowly descend into darkness. For…
Cynical perhaps, but it feels safe to assume in 2025 that a majority of Americans do not know that Rhodesia was a country, let alone…
There are two popular theories about the etymology of Prvić, a Croatian island in the Šibenik archipelago. The first theory relates to its closest proximity…
How do you solve a problem like Superman? This legendary IP has been sitting either unused or abused for the better part of 20 years, subject…
There probably isn’t a company on earth better associated with immediacy than Amazon. Unless one lives in the remotest regions of Canada or Alaska, there…
Thibault Emin’s Else begins with a series of undulating abstract images that suggest microscopic photography, a vaguely organic tapestry that evokes skin under a magnifying…
After the vaguely haunted house-esque shenanigans of Fallen Kingdom and the inexplicable focus on crop-eating superlocusts in Dominion, it appears the powers behind the Jurassic…
Despite having only arrived five years ago, 2020 feels in a lot of ways as if it were a century from another era, wherein a…
When David Lynch tragically passed away earlier this year, he left behind an unassailable body of work, which has been often imitated yet seldom replicated.…
Given the real-life horrors of a global pandemic and an increasingly hostile socio-political climate, it’s no wonder that post-apocalyptic fiction is as en vogue as…