Latin America — though hardly a monolith — has historically been near-unilaterally excluded from leading cinematic institutions, whether commercial distribution, festival programming, and critical and…
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…
Across 30 years and seven films, Lee Chang-dong has told stories about a diverse array of people, from the gangsters in Green Fish (1997), to…
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…
The documentaries of the Polish virtuoso of stylised nonfiction Michał Marczak resist any neat taxonomy, as their proximity to their heroes and spectacular command of…
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…
Two years after announcing himself to the film world with Green Fish, a noir that used the genre’s bleak markers to scaffold the erasure of…
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…
Wicker, the latest film from Save Yourselves! directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, is a film both steeped in the romantic fantasies of old…
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…
A friend once admitted to having consumed Wonka (2023) on his cellphone mid-flight, in 10-minute increments between naps, “the way Scorsese intended.” The admission is,…
Lee Chang-dong retrospective…
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…