At 87 minutes, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Last Stop for the Circular Ticket is the longest film he’s made since his 1995 masterpiece The Enclosed Valley, but…
One of the hardest things to pull off in comedy is having characters who are knowingly foolish without also dragging the film around them into…
Guy Maddin’s Careful is newly restored and once again bringing its unique, alpine, psycho-sexual mania to cinemagoers, who are perhaps a little better prepared for…
Major credit is due to KVIFF for continuing to world-premiere some of the roughest documentaries from the Ukrainian frontline. Two years ago, the festival unveiled…
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, an entry in the PBS series American Masters directed by Sasha Waters (Gary Winogrand: All Things…
Hidden in a nook of the Île d’Yeu cemetery, the grave of Marshal Philippe Pétain has grown into a symbolic site of contention for the…
Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual cinephile pilgrimage in Bologna, has reached its 40th edition. As ever, it brings an ample assortment of newly restored films…
Celebrating its 80th this year, Karlovy Vary has long been one of Europe's foremost film festivals, an essential waypoint on any cinephile's continental wanderings. Balancing bold stewarshsip of world premieres and careful curation of the best the international circuit has to offer, KVIFF always offers attendees both the thrill of discovery and a ticket to
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Young Washington, distributed by Angel Studios as part of a slate conspicuously timed for America’s 250th — including the forthcoming Revolutionary War flick Drummer Boy…
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For a certain kind of action movie fan, DTV action has long been where the real hidden gems lie. From the long-touted Universal Soldier: Day…
Carla Simón’s parents passed away when she was only six years old. As an adult, she’s spent her filmmaking career unpacking what that’s meant to…
What becomes quickly apparent when diving into Izabel Pakzad’s directorial debut Find Your Friends is that by basically every metric you might generally judge a…
Given their inherently terrifying nature, it’s a wonder that killer cephalopods are not allotted much space in terms of cinematic appreciation. From their billowy, spectral…
The latest installment of Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard’s epic-length project Castration Movie is a departure in a few ways. For one thing, Part iii.ii, or…
Social realism and soap opera generally have more in common than the po-faced occupiers of your local arthouse would like you to believe. Every time…
Any casual viewer of arthouse cinema from the past decade is likely to experience immediate déjà vu upon sitting down to watch Savage House: what does…
The great Malcolm D. Lee’s new Peacock streamer Strung opens with an arresting scene of Laila Calloway (the potentially computer-animated actor and popstar Chloe Bailey),…
It’s a strange position Eric André finds himself in. For a few years, he was the great hope for a fringe oddball to slip into…
Xue Ma’s films are radically unique. There’s a strange romance, explicit and implicit, and a profane magic that permeates the Chinese ex-pat’s White River (2023),…
Ryuya Suzuki’s Jinsei is clearly a labor of love. Completed over an 18-month period, Suzuki wrote, directed, hand-drew, and scored the film, his feature debut,…