Moneyboys looks good to the eye but sees nothing new, regurgitating the more inspired reveries of erotic ennui that directors like Tsai Ming-liang effortlessly…
Sycorax is a fluid re-orientation of filmic and theatrical modes, a mostly successful attempt at contextualizing classic modes within a contemporary context. The vastly…
Mariner of the Mountains is a beautiful family project that becomes diluted within the context of Aïnouz’s filmography, slowing the film’s considerable poetry. Per the…
Summer of Changsa is an exercise in useless misery that feels lifeless from start to finish. Having premiered three years ago, all the way back…
Deception should have been prime, loopy material for Desplechin, but instead remains frustratingly staid, only occasionally capturing the spark of his more personal material.…
Adele Exarchopoulos makes this French import worth at least a couple fucks. The mid-midlife crisis genre has always been a bit of a mixed…
It’s easy to ride Love After Love’s opulent wave of aimlessness for a while, but it eventually all becomes too exhausting. Love After Love…
Feast exists in the liminal spaces between fact and fiction, a wholly original work that forces viewers to grapple with its themes in troubling, unexpected…
Train Again is yet another bold, precise, and transcendental work from Peter Tscherkassky. As InRO contributor Brendan Nagle once observed, the image — 24 of…
Great Freedom is a tender celebration of unconventionality, in all its complex and varied incarnations. Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code…
Lingui is a middlebrow arthouse trifle that offends in its simplicity and deference to narrative convenience. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, the latest from Chadian director…
Black Medusa is cast with a certain austere beauty, but is an otherwise empty exercise in bland, utilitarian form. In a thankless role as one…
There Will Be No More Night is an intelligent, nightmarish portrait of war as first-person shooter and interrogation of how we consume visual information in…
Katz’s film is an understated, elliptical work that speaks volumes in its pointed quietude. Ana Katz’s The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet appears at…
The latest entry into the “quarantine art” canon, Project Space 13 is just another empty film with nothing substantive to say about our present…
The Trouble with Being Born is remarkable not just for its futurism and ambient atmosphere, but for the care with which its relationships — not…
Thy Kingdom Come feels like what it is — deleted scenes from (and a misapprehension of) To the Wonder rather than a supplement to its…
Accidental Luxuriance is a poorly-paced, rancid mixture of conflicting aesthetic elements. Far more than its rather nonsensical title and unconventional mix of animation styles, the…