As the popular online adage goes, Cinephilia is a disease, and few exemplify this better than filmmakers themselves. Shaped by the forms, narratives and dramaturgies…
Rare is the film that earnestly inspires you to hold your loved ones closer. Rarer still is the film that does so while making room…
Breathing in Angela Schanelec’s world may be one of the most ineffable experiences still available to us in contemporary cinema: the sensation of drifting among…
Crime doesn’t pay the way it used to. At least, that’s the case for the old school petty thieves who would thrive on a practiced…
Sacha Baron Cohen must have depleted the water supply of approximately 17 townships to present us with all of the following: AI-generated Hitler and Greta…
Don’t ask why, but I’ve been thinking about Belly a lot lately. Yes, it is a charmed life. With every rewatch, it becomes even more…
Ideology is the backbone of cinema. Or, at least that is what Jean-Luc Comolli and Paul Narboni posited nearly 60 years ago in their joint…
For some, Halloween is just a holiday, a brief period of time when the neighborhood is suddenly adorned with frightening accouterments and houses become inundated…
Director James Nunn and frequent leading man Scott Adkins are back together again with One Last Shot, the (presumably) final entry in their elaborately staged,…
Adaptation isn’t an exact science. Where one film fails for missing the essence of a text, another succeeds despite ignoring the details. Translation in the…
Judd Apatow’s Norm opens, obviously, with a Netflix logo, followed immediately by a digitized “play” icon. A cursor is dragged to the middle of the…
If there is one group that’s not short of tales to tell, it’s Wu-Tang Clan. That rather comes with the territory whenever you’ve got nine…
MoMA’s screening series “Long Live the Underground!” is a celebration in honor of two esteemed New York institutions. The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, founded in 1961, was…
For the past decade or so, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have been dancing on either edge of the same cultural black hole. In 2018,…
If readers were born, variably, between the ‘80s and ‘00s, chances are they hold dear a core memory of Stephen King discovery. In most households,…
Nothing stays buried under the snow forever. In the early ‘90s, Chile was a country eager not just to move forward, but to prove it…
In My Sad Dead’s picture of Buenos Aires, death is everywhere. That’s especially so for Emma (Mercedes Morán), a recently retired gastroenterologist with the gift…
A young woman walks through a field of white flowers, suspended for a moment with neither origin nor destination, seemingly fallen to earth in Carlos…
With The Blood Countess, Ulrike Ottinger makes the case that there’s only one suitable way to open a movie where Isabelle Huppert plays a resurrected…
The cinema of Clio Barnard takes place in corners of the world familiar to those living in, or near, them, but invisible to those living…
Under the aegis of the recently formed specialty label Clockwork, Warner Bros. Pictures is finally releasing a full restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils in…