The rousing action epic may seem, in the age of bloated superhero flicks and video game adaptations, a thing of cinema’s past. If, for…
Comparisons to Everything Everywhere All at Once seem inevitable in the early buzz on Yang Li’s Escape from the 21st Century. The TIFF program…
Released — under no coincidental pretexts — within the same month as Jacinda Ardern’s autobiographical memoir of her time as New Zealand’s Prime Minister,…
Director July Jung’s first film, 2014’s A Girl at My Door, starred Bae Doona as a policewoman who gets transferred to a small fishing…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that…
To coin an adage, directing a Stephen King adaptation is like getting a tattoo: it’s difficult to stop at one. The only thing harder…
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s new film can only be described as experimental. It doesn’t just explore the legacy of Martinican writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire, an intellectual whose…
Grieving widow Kate Garrett (Julianne Moore) hides her struggles. She’s hard up financially, and relies on the dwindling generosity of her ex-husband, Richard (Kyle…
Much has been made about the terror of the deep blue sea and its inhabitants, and the shark movie in particular is a genre…
What’s so titillating about Hong Kong? Certain cities have sex appeal, of course — it’s easier to imagine a ménage à trois in Paris…
I Don’t Understand You, directed and written by married couple Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig, continually cashes in on the promise of its…
What Judaism has become in its projection into a popular culture is indisputably a messy construct, to speak in minimizing terms. Putting aside the…
Despite William Friedkin’s best efforts to shut the door on the subject over 50 years ago, religious horror tales of demonic possession persist, with…