Adaptation isn’t an exact science. Where one film fails for missing the essence of a text, another succeeds despite ignoring the details. Translation in the…
Judd Apatow’s Norm opens, obviously with a Netflix logo, followed immediately by a digitized “play” icon. A cursor is dragged to the middle of the…
If there is one group that’s not short of tales to tell, it’s Wu-Tang Clan. That rather comes with the territory whenever you’ve got nine…
For the past decade or so, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have been dancing on either edge of the same cultural black hole. In 2018,…
If readers were born, variably, between the ‘80s and ‘00s, chances are they hold dear a core memory of Stephen King discovery. In most households,…
“The odds of being swallowed by a whale are not zero.” That little factoid is from a promotional tweet by the distributor of Whalefall, a…
Time is an amazing thing. It eludes us as we write, as we speak, read, and breathe, confounding us even more when things don’t follow…
Ok class, raise your hands if you would be excited to watch a nearly three-hour film about chess? I’m sure there are plenty of In…
At first glance, Dominik Moll’s Case 137 looks a lot like his last film, the César-winning The Night of the 12th. That film was a…
Aaron Sorkin began his directing career at the tender age of 56, decidedly later than most. As one of Hollywood’s most widely celebrated screenwriters, he…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy can best be described as confident: a bold step in the direction of an ample, maximalist horror. But it is seldom…
Though Western cinephiles are likely most familiar with Herman Yau through the grisly Category III shockers he made with Anthony Wong (Taxi Hunter, The Untold…
There are movies we find undoubtedly bad — movies that get us worked up, that offend us, that ruin our day — but that at…
A new horror short from Demon Knight and Bones director Ernest R. Dickerson is the best reason to see V/H/S: Mixtape, but even his segment…
Animals, the new Netflix film from director-(co-)writer-actor Ben Affleck, is an uncredited adaptation of Ed McBain’s (nom de plume of writer Evan Hunter) 1959 novel…
God, girlhood is tough. Of course, there’s no one-size-fits-all experience of being a young girl; we all likely know this, but the diversity of youth…
There’s something weirdly admirable about just how shamelessly Matchbox: The Movie (yes, that is the actual title) behaves as a piece of corporate synergy/IP. It’s almost…
For the first time in his feature career, Cristian Mungiu has shifted his critical gaze from Romania to its western neighbors. A Cannes luminary par…
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…
Indonesian horror films are having a moment. Not only are home video labels like Severin producing box sets of the films of genre icon Suzzanna,…
In Victoria Hely-Hutchinson’s documentary Vacances, time is measured by changing bodies. As the summers roll by over the course of nine years, lines in backs…