“Can the copy of something embody the truth of its original self?” The world we have built for ourselves is an ersatz one. We gaze…
In Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, Josette (Josette Kwanya) is a widowed 80-year-old living alone in her vast house. All her children are scattered…
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…
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Ted Fendt’s films have always had a proclivity for the esoteric; analog film stocks, long takes, conversation amongst intellectuals, 20th-century novels. Yet they remain primarily…
My Undesirable Friends: Part 2 – Exile picks up right where Par 1 – Last Air in Moscow left off: Russia is a little over…
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…
In many respects, each of the works by Wang Bing at Cannes this year exemplifies the now-reigning axes of Wang’s interests and style. Youth (Spring)…
Fourteen years ago, Dan Sallitt burst into the indie film scene with his transgressive, funny, and ultimately sweet, The Unspeakable Act. It wasn’t Sallitt’s first…
What’s the actual value of a documentary about Elon Musk in 2026, let alone an exhaustive one that runs nearly four hours long? Like President…
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle’s Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency opens with a bright red “WARNING. This film contains environmental destruction, explicit ecosexuality and…
Renny Harlin has no competition. That he has managed to corner the market on a genre-diverse yet highly specific form of popular filmmaking is somewhat…
In the mid 2000s, American duo Silibil N’ Brains were the next big thing in rap. The only problem? They weren’t actually American. Instead, Gavin…
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Over drinks at a lounge in Hollywood, Chris Rock tells Rosalind Eleazar that if you go anywhere in America, there’s a chance that at some…