Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…
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…
Filmmaker Julian Schnabel returns to a familiar topic with his In the Hand of Dante… sort of. The painter-turned-acclaimed filmmaker has dedicated most of his…
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…
In Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, the titular outlaw of English folklore spends his final years wandering the moors of 13th-century Britain, trying…
On its surface, Haifa al-Mansour’s Unidentified is a crime thriller that follows a recent divorcee, Nawal (Mila Al Zahrani), as her true crime obsession emboldens…
Before diving into any of the specific details of Citizen Vigilante, let’s get straight into what the film actually is: racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop…
John Early is a tightrope artist. There’s little about his debut feature, Maddie’s Secret, that should work. With the DNA of a comedy sketch, Maddie’s…
“All films are time travel films, and all films are ghost films,” said filmmaker Mark Jenkin at a post-screening Q&A for the New York Film…
Girls Like Girls is gay, and (mostly) proud of it. The film is Hayley Kiyoko’s adaptation of her novel of the same title, which was…
Shark attack movies are clearly trying to mount some sort of cinematic comeback, with 2026 having already seen the releases of Deep Water and Thrash.…
The release of a full-length, stop-motion animated film is a relatively infrequent occasion, given the amount of labor and resources necessary to produce one. I…
Much digital ink has been spilled over whether now, more than ever, we need positive queer images in popular media. As the world skids further…
In John Carney’s latest work of music-centric cinema, Paul Rudd is Rick Power, frontman for The Bride & Groove, a Dublin-based wedding band. They tear…
The first shot of Julian Chou’s film Blind Love is both jarring and literal: a close-up of a doctor draining a cyst under a twitching…
Near the end of The Gas Station Attendant, filmmaker Karla Murthy admits that she is “stuck in a time loop” while she sifts through boxes…
Nestled in the rural midwestern town of Three Oaks, Michigan, the largest flag day parade in the nation is a surreal scene of unabashed Americana,…
Because cinema is an art form defined by duration and, thus, its unique ability to depict movement, capturing human bodies in motion has always been…
Steven Spielberg’s latest venture into science fiction is also perhaps his most extensive venture into examining the properties and powers of the cross-cut. Emily Blunt…
In 2023, a little film called Barbie made boffo box office, raking in well over a billion dollars and becoming something of a global phenomenon.…
It makes sense that the era in which movies are constantly dissected, parodied, and memeified through Letterboxd logs, Instagram Reels, and TikTok videos also marked…