Luca Guadagnino’s neo-realist farce Artificial presents a parade of dipshits: 1) figuratively, as it introduces us to the careless architects of what many believe is…
Ava DuVernay’s 13th is one of the most influential documentaries of the 21st century, for better or worse. Released at the tipping point between the…
After having seen A Real Pain, one might ascribe a certain set of proclivities to Jesse Eisenberg-as-director: an easygoing affability, a penchant for the gentle…
It would be an exaggeration to call Julia Loktev’s previous documentary, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, a smash hit. Clocking…
Fourteen years ago, Dan Sallitt burst into the indie film scene with his transgressive, funny, and ultimately sweet, The Unspeakable Act. It wasn’t Sallitt’s first…
Over drinks at a lounge in Hollywood, Chris Rock tells Rosalind Eleazar that if you go anywhere in America, there’s a chance that at some…
Geese, for lack of a better word, is good. Heirs apparent to the art-rock mantle, they reign in the arena less because they deserve the…
The obvious thing to say about Dan Sallitt’s new film, What Can’t Be Mentioned, is that it can’t be fully appreciated without first seeing its…
Alex Serian has been away for a long time. At the start of Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!, the gifted cellist (played with great commitment by Pedro…
Rare is the film that earnestly inspires you to hold your loved ones closer. Rarer still is the film that does so while making room…
Whatever one thinks of Carlos Reygadas, it’s hard to argue against his ability to open a movie. His newest film Heil Jupiter!, largely spoken in…
Parsing the cinema’s relation to sound, Gilles Deleuze once wrote, “…the sound as well as visual elements of the image enter into internal relations which…
The post-Drive My Car films of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi have built a case for the director as the most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker in the world. Even…
“Cinema has something premonitory about it,” says Elsa (Bárbara Lennie), the cult director-turned-adman at the center of Bitter Christmas. It’s a statement director Pedro Almodóvar…
In this dispatch: The Day She Returns…
Every time a Hong Sang-soo film plays at a film festival, one can assume someone in the audience is encountering the prolific filmmaker for the…
It is perhaps inevitable that a higher number of films are going to be focused on the difficulties of aging as birth rates decline and…
Andrew Haigh has proven adept, at times exceptionally so, at crossing diverse conceptual landscapes. His relationship dramas, of both the young and queer (Weekend, Looking,…
For the past decade, James Gray has been talked about in cinephile circles as the last great American (neo-)classist, the only auteur effectively continuing to…
“My father said you got to swallow your feelings.” Jimmy George, the fictional actor at the center of Ira Sachs’ new film The Man I…