10 features into their directorial partnership — featuring nine documentaries — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi return to the place of their initial collaboration:…
In a video doing the rounds from the red carpet premiere of Klara and the Sun, an interviewer asks director Taika Waititi what it’s like…
The first two images of writer-director David Pablos’ On the Road are certain to grab the attention of any viewer: kerosene is poured over a…
Though it certainly remains formidable today, both for its physical grandeur and its towering spectacle as a preeminent wonder of the world, Mount Everest is…
Yoshiyuki Okuyama’s 5 Centimeters Per Second is only on its face a romantic story, about a lovelorn boy and his lost childhood love. If only…
After an 18-year hiatus following his acclaimed Sundance debut, Ballast, filmmaker Lance Hammer has returned with his sophomore feature. Hammer has expressed that his long…
Christmas-themed horror movies are a dime a dozen. Blending gleeful fits of carnage with what is — for most — arguably the cheeriest holiday of…
Much digital ink has been spilled about the merits of YouTubers transitioning to feature film directors. Some happily welcome this newfound generation of talent with…
On October 11, 1985, during Back to the Future’s 15th week in theaters, while audiences reveled in Marty and Doc Brown’s escape from Libyan terrorists…
It was only in January 2026, a whole decade after Michał Marczak’s All These Sleepless Nights had premiered at Sundance, that I learned that a…
At the 75th edition of Cannes, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage (2022) sparked considerable attention, premiering in Un Certain Regard. This playfully reimagined portrait of…
The pop music industry is one of single stories. Regardless of the language or nationality of the industry, pop musicians are essentially told to fit…
It’s been a rocky old road for Jack Begert’s Junk. Premiering at Sundance 2024 under the title Little Death, the film won the NEXT Innovation…
If LAIKA’s Wildwood was an absolute travesty in every other way, its floor would remain high because simply just looking at it, regardless of plot…
Paweł Pawlikowski, the immaculate king of grim black-and-white Eastern European cinema, has made us wait eight years for a new film. After the exquisite moral…
In some remote village, at some time before electricity and machines, there are the men who have jobs and the women who wed them. The…
It was only a matter of time until the superhero machine sank its teeth into body horror. With Clayface, the DCU makes good on a…
Very often in cinema, it’s as if we know the director of a film; we know their basic predilections, visual and thematic preoccupations, but only…
As the popular online adage goes, Cinephilia is a disease, and few exemplify this better than filmmakers themselves. Shaped by the forms, narratives and dramaturgies…
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…
Crime doesn’t pay the way it used to. At least, that’s the case for the old school petty thieves who would thrive on a practiced…