Two young boys, one reserved and one outgoing, become fast friends at elementary school in Kohei Kadowaki’s ambitious and thoughtful animated film We Are Aliens,…
Among civilized Europe, the French as a collective may have a unique predilection for social dysfunction, or at least a unique openness to confronting and…
As an adult, returning to watch a beloved film from childhood can be a most delightful experience. That which charmed you then may still charm…
Argentinian filmmaker Lucio Castro likes it when you don’t quite know what you’re looking at. His first feature, End of the Century, was a time-travel…
One of the funny little indignities of life is that as men hit their 50s, reaching a stage when many are arguably at their peak…
In 2017’s Summer 1993, director Carla Simón’s feature debut, a young girl is sent to live with her mother’s family in Barcelona after her mother’s…
In his trilogy of novels about the adolescence and adulthood of a young man closely modeled on himself, Edmund White distilled the essence of what…
Since its debut 151 years ago, Georges Bizet’s enduring and controversial opera Carmen has inspired dozens of adaptations across mediums as varied as film, Broadway,…
Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is a place made out of dates. Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1 —…
The animated documentary, by its very definition, is contradictory. Neither form wants to acknowledge the other’s existence because doing so shatters the convenient illusion that…
In a fictional New York City, a wolf stalks through the night. This isn’t a typical wolf. She’s not prowling for a kill. This wolf…
Immediately obvious in Supergirl is that it seems determined not to be seen as merely a sequel to, or a full spinoff of, James Gunn’s…
There’s no place like home. For Joe (Seth Rogen), home has metastasized into such a calamity that it’s all he can think about when he’s…
Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave swiftly announces itself as a musico-political spectacle. Music as activism, activism as music, but mostly — and sorely — musical activism.…
Achingly personal films, theoretically, should be everywhere. Technology for the production of moving images is available to more people now than ever before. If one…
We’ve had plenty of animal attack movies over the years. Of course, Jaws is the granddaddy of killer sharks, spawning dozens of knockoffs of all…
The “YouTuber-to-filmmaker” pipeline is becoming a viable pathway to Hollywood success in 2026, particularly in the horror genre. In some notable cases, like with movie…
Back so soon, Mr. Stanton? Following the unmitigated, off-the-rails trainwreck of In the Blink of an Eye in February, one might expect the director to…
Bouchra, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s unusual, surprising, and often moving debut feature, centers on the relationship between its eponymous character, a queer Moroccan filmmaker…
A 106-minute wisp of a film that unspools like the searching nature of life, Alice Winocour’s Couture keeps alive the ethos of a filmmaker who…
Summer camp is a pivotal moment for many a young person. Attendee or counselor, it’s a time away from parents and responsibilities, which allows a…