“Is this what the end of the world feels like?” The question is posed from one beleaguered raver to another, on a school bus somewhere…
Now in its third year, Film Fest Knox continues to be a model for what a small regional festival should be, combining highlights from the…
“What’s a pretty girl like you,” asks Don King, the all-time boxing promoter played by Chad L. Coleman, “doing getting punched in the face?” Christy…
A promotional email hit my inbox last month that cut through the static fuzz, the torrential downpour of inbox shit, and caught me off guard.…
Myrtle Gordon, the actress played with dazed, turbulent ferocity by Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night, struggles to articulate her problem with…
“People are cheap, water is expensive.” So says Reza (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil), the mysterious and curiously educated drifter who stumbles into Ali’s (Ekin Koç) withered…
Ira Sachs’ 2010 short film Last Address presents an unadorned montage of New York City apartment buildings and rowhouses, each of which once housed an…
If you follow the news or perhaps live in one of the American cities where masked thugs are abducting people off the streets, having its…
During my short self-directed crash course on Argentine cinema last month, I was surprised how little had been written in English on the subject. There…
With Peter Hujar’s Day, writer-director Ira Sachs reteams with actor Ben Whishaw, trading the contemporary Paris of Passages (2023) for 1974 Manhattan. Whishaw stars as…
After bouts of dormancy and some pretty questionable installments, the Predator series seems to be experiencing a minor renaissance under the watch of filmmaker Dan…
There comes a tale from an antique land. A King ruled over a thin Isthmus, above and below which were two unfathomably large continents. A…
Love+War, the latest project produced by Little Monster Films, helmed by the dynamic documentarian duo of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chair Vasarhelyi (Free Solo), couldn’t…
Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, captures…
In Sentimental Value, there’s a scene where the veteran filmmaker Gustav Borg, played by Stellan Skarsgård, explains to his newly discovered lead actress, Rachel Kemp,…
Gone are the days of awards contenders being packed like sardines into December’s release calendar. Instead, in recent years October has become the prime launching…
The themes of time and guilt are ribboned together in Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, a modest yet sweeping period drama set in the Pacific Northwest during…
Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk seems likely to be the most important film to screen at the 2025…
“Baahubali!” The name rings out like music. Maybe you’ve heard it before, or maybe you haven’t, but the song sounds sweet just the same. S.S.…
On its face, the concept of writer-director Nia DaCosta’s Hedda sounds perilously, excitingly ambitious: DaCosta has adapted Henrik Ibsen’s venerated drama of psychological realism Hedda…
In the television series Dexter, our eponymous antagonist finds himself gifted, or cursed, with an insatiable urge to kill. Although he grows up under the…