How do you solve a problem like Superman? This legendary IP has been sitting either unused or abused for the better part of 20 years, subject…
Every summer, film obsessives make the pilgrimage to Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato — a week of restorations, rediscoveries, and archival oddities projected in cinemas…
There probably isn’t a company on earth better associated with immediacy than Amazon. Unless one lives in the remotest regions of Canada or Alaska, there…
In Soñé Su Nombre (“I Dreamed His Name”)…
Ah, but first: an introduction. This is the first entry of Flashback, a new column hosted by In Review Online. Here, I play your very…
Before effective treatment was available for HIV/AIDS, many understandably sought out cures outside of conventional medicine for the illness ravaging their bodies. Louise Hay, a…
After the vaguely haunted house-esque shenanigans of Fallen Kingdom and the inexplicable focus on crop-eating superlocusts in Dominion, it appears the powers behind the Jurassic…
Cannes fatigue is real, and while a whole slew of titles noteworthy, contentious, or otherwise irresistible has earned the attention of the media, the gap…
Following Pacifiction, his seventh and most technically elaborate narrative film, Albert Serra did something unexpected: he produced his first full-length documentary. Afternoons of Solitude is…
Socrates: The main question I want to ask is whether a lifetime spent scratching, itching and scratching, no end of scratching, is also a life…
The purest, and arguably most puerile, definition of auteurism necessitates a neat classification of artistic idiosyncrasies. The governing principle behind this approach is to find…
Until semi-recently, Formula 1 racing was only immensely popular pretty much all over the world except in the United States, but a combination of the…
The popular conception of sexuality in America has doubtless expanded since the turn of the century, but its depiction on mainstream screens somehow has not.…
It wasn’t his debut or even his first major work, but Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s opening credits to Tropical Malady deliver perhaps the moment that summarizes everything…
Mani Ratnam is considered one of India’s finest directors, particularly among those working in the Tamil language, and is coming off a two-part critical and…
Decades in the making but arguably being released five years prematurely, 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to 2002’s seminal, lo-fi zombie film 28 Days Later…
“This language of the unreal, this fictive language which delivers us to fiction, comes from silence and returns to silence.” – Maurice Blanchot, The Space…
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard A fabulistic streak tints the proceedings of The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard, David Verbeek’s ninth feature,…
Cinematographer Bill Pope must have done something awful in 2022. Maybe he ran over some studio executive’s cat or perhaps his children beat out the…
Natchez Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival,…
Without raising too much of a film culture racket, the Predator films have endured for nearly four decades, steadily turning out a new entry every…