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…
A moment of peculiar poignancy opens Erige Sehiri’s sensitive, if somewhat unremarkable, Promised Sky. A young girl is being bathed by three women as she…
In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular art…
Ol Parker is no stranger to a feel-good star vehicle. He wrote The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel, and directed Mamma Mia! Here…
At first glance, Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Carolina Caroline is the sort of film online cinephiles love to bemoan “they don’t make anymore,” a grounded crime…
Another World offers a reprieve from Western visions of a dreary, Catholic purgatory. “Another World” — both the film’s title and its proper name for…
Actor-turned-filmmakers seem to be the highlight of the 2025 edition of Cannes, but Official Competition newcomer Hafsia Herzi — already with two feature films under…