As InRO’s own Jake Tropila makes note of in his recent piece on the killer-shark-in-a-cave-movie The Devil’s Mouth, “shark movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year”;…
It’s a shame I had to see Kent Jones’ Willem Dafoe vehicle, Late Fame, on the Upper West Side at NYFF in mid-September. It was…
“There is a hole in the lake where the movies come from” is one of those incredible lines that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp…
The quaint and rustic settlement of Sangerhausen, in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt, might have been an incidental choice of setting, but much of Julian Radlmaier’s quietly revelatory…
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While Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) are the immediate poster children for Eli Roth’s work as a horror director, his debut Cabin Fever…
Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke is a delight, a playful formalist in a sea of self-serious festival auteurs. But because comedy is often viewed askance by…
Lou Diamond Phillips, now over 40 years into his acting career, has quietly become one of our more reliable screen performers. His big break came…
Thomas Kail’s live-action Moana retains the 2016 animated film’s narrative and musical architecture so faithfully that the change of medium amounts largely to a substitution…
30 years ago, Ngozi Onwurah made history by becoming the first Black female filmmaker in Britain to have a film released theatrically. As she’ll tell…
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It seems like there are only two certain things nowadays: death and new Spider-Man movies. Audiences apparently just love the character, so much so that…
Descriptors like “off-kilter” evoke something crooked, unbalanced, slanted, strange. These words are all, more or less, synonymous with the original meaning of the term “queer.”…
If you haven’t heard, Gen Z isn’t getting laid. Sex — who’s having it, and more importantly, who’s not — is paramount in Gregg Araki’s…
Turning 30 fucking sucks. Too old to be considered young, yet too young to have everything figured out (as if anyone ever really has it…
Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature, Jimmy, though it follows James Baldwin at a pivotal moment in his life, cannot be accurately called a biopic. Rather, in its…
Sometimes all you want out of a movie is a really, really huge guy tearing smaller guys apart with his bare hands. Alan Ritchson has…
18 years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender and 12 years after the conclusion of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra, creators…
July marks the beginning of the second half of 2026, and Killer Shark Movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year, arriving in cinemas and on…
Does ill-discipline equal rebelliousness? If so, then Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella is already one of the best films of the year. Cavalli, who…
There isn’t a filmmaker out there quite like Danielle Arbid. The French-Lebanese director has crafted films about war, family, isolation, and the perils of love…