In the decades during Bush’s Global War on Terror that became Obama’s, then Trump’s, then Biden’s, there was a sense of resistance that permeated among…
Several of Kalil Haddad’s films begin with a school picture. An adolescent boy poses for the camera, his hair neatly brushed, his shirt clean, a…
Jaws: the New Hollywood movie that began to end them all by creating summer blockbusters, the origin point for practically every bad urban legend about…
The mid-to-late ’90s into the early 2000s felt like a boom period for scrappy, singular, and DIY indie queer cinema. From Go Fish to Watermelon…
America’s contested legacy began even before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and, as far as cinema is concerned, continues to outgrow the fervid…
For over a decade, many cinephiles’ one touchpoint for the high watermark in martial arts cinema has been The Raid. It’s for good reason. Gareth…
Because cinema is an art form defined by duration and, thus, its unique ability to depict movement, capturing human bodies in motion has always been…
The godfather of punk cinema, Jon Moritsugu, unleashes his vision of the contemporary art world in his seventh feature film, Numbskull Revolution (2026), which relates…
Before you lies a choice, a selection of fates. In one possibility, you are Tsarina of all the Russias, you are caparisoned in gemstones, wrapped…
Steven Spielberg’s latest venture into science fiction is also perhaps his most extensive venture into examining the properties and powers of the cross-cut. Emily Blunt…
Film festivals can feel like these nebulous, sometimes exploitative, labyrinthine constructs. At their best, however, they should hopefully be a place to foster creation and…
Designed to please any movie lover with a heart, Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs’ Kids Like Me follows Oliver Odwazny-Beebe, a passionate indie filmmaker with a murder…
Nathan R. Stenberg, Mike Attie, and Katarina Poljak’s The Haunting of Pennhurst is an archival and verité look at the transformation of the notorious Pennhurst…
In 2023, a little film called Barbie made boffo box office, raking in well over a billion dollars and becoming something of a global phenomenon.…
It makes sense that the era in which movies are constantly dissected, parodied, and memeified through Letterboxd logs, Instagram Reels, and TikTok videos also marked…
A moment of peculiar poignancy opens Erige Sehiri’s sensitive, if somewhat unremarkable, Promised Sky. A young girl is being bathed by three women as she…
In his 2020 dark comedy Dinner in America, director Adam Carter Rehmeier captured the stifling stagnancy of life in suburban America and the simmering urge…
In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular art…
Ol Parker is no stranger to a feel-good star vehicle. He wrote The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel, and directed Mamma Mia! Here…
Allow me to posit a cinephilic contention: that cinema is perhaps the most formally complete of all art forms — or rather, a blistering confection…
At first glance, Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Carolina Caroline is the sort of film online cinephiles love to bemoan “they don’t make anymore,” a grounded crime…