During a published 2025 conversation with Barry Jenkins, Charles Burnett takes a moment to acknowledge the L.A. Rebellion. This cinematic movement, which he helped spearhead,…
There’s no shortage of films that tackle generational differences, particularly parental figures and their often limiting expectations for their children. From Zac Efron in Disney…
The magic is gone. That much is impossible to ignore. Practical Magic 2 is little more than reheated nostalgia bait, though Warner Bros. would like…
The title of the world’s oldest living person changes hands with inevitable frequency, with long-standing centenarians perpetually fading away to make room for the next…
A Paul Greengrass movie is a lot like finding yourself stuck next to a talkative history professor on a plane. Well-meaning, passionate, and rambling, you…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is our great purveyor of modern ennui, a chronicler of creeping existential dread as the world we have created now threatens to engulf…
What is “Buzz”? The murmur around a popular film at Sundance? The alarm from an angry bee, fly, gnat? The sultry purr of a sex…
Hope, director Na Hong-jin’s first feature in a decade, is also his splashiest film. It first premiered in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes,…
Only his second feature-length film after maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (2021), Sky Hopinka’s Powwow People is the director’s least tangibly experimental project to…
In Haitian Vodou, “turning someone into a zombie is like putting them back into slavery… forever.” This is among the opening lines of Maya Annik…
Guy Moshe is an Israeli-American filmmaker. This, under normal circumstances, is not information pertinent to a review, but regarding his latest, The Fix, it’s tough…
If Los Angeles is the land of struggling actors languishing in food service — the sitcom Party Down plumbed this phenomenon for three seasons —…