Social realism and soap opera generally have more in common than the po-faced occupiers of your local arthouse would like you to believe. Every time…
The great Malcolm D. Lee’s new Peacock streamer Strung opens with an arresting scene of Laila Calloway (the potentially computer-animated actor and popstar Chloe Bailey),…
It’s a strange position Eric André finds himself in. For a few years, he was the great hope for a fringe oddball to slip into…
In an early scene in Igarashi Kohei’s Super Happy Forever, Sano (Hiroki Sano) confronts a child on the beach. It’s a scene that feels devoid…
Couture’s scenario reads like something straight out of the 1950s. Three women — an ingenue model from a humble background, a struggling makeup artist with…
One of the funny little indignities of life is that as men hit their 50s, reaching a stage when many are arguably at their peak…
In 2017’s Summer 1993, director Carla Simón’s feature debut, a young girl is sent to live with her mother’s family in Barcelona after her mother’s…
In his trilogy of novels about the adolescence and adulthood of a young man closely modeled on himself, Edmund White distilled the essence of what…
Immediately obvious in Supergirl is that it seems determined not to be seen as merely a sequel to, or a full spinoff of, James Gunn’s…
There’s no place like home. For Joe (Seth Rogen), home has metastasized into such a calamity that it’s all he can think about when he’s…
Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave swiftly announces itself as a musico-political spectacle. Music as activism, activism as music, but mostly — and sorely — musical activism.…
We’ve had plenty of animal attack movies over the years. Of course, Jaws is the granddaddy of killer sharks, spawning dozens of knockoffs of all…
Bouchra, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s unusual, surprising, and often moving debut feature, centers on the relationship between its eponymous character, a queer Moroccan filmmaker…
If the end of the world left the children in charge, what kind of future might they build? This question simmers underneath a surface of…