There’s a scene early on in Conclave, Edward Berger’s twisting, surprisingly pulpy thriller about the election of a new Pope, in which Cardinal-Dean Thomas…
The Alex Honnold we met in 2020’s Free Solo is no longer, apparently. Once a laser-focused, emotionally-detached athlete honed in on his solitary conquests…
Robin Wood begins the introduction to his 1965 book Hitchcock’s Films with a question: “Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?” It’s a deceptively simple query;…
Wang Bing films have a reputation for their difficulty, but the opening film in his Youth trilogy, Youth (Spring), managed to be surprisingly varied…
Claymation, most readily identified for its craggy, almost comedic artificiality, can, in fact, most truthfully express our deepest and, at times, darkest emotions. The…
Rap World, the longest film directed by Conner O’Malley to date (running just a smidge over 55 minutes), is somewhat contradictorily one of his…
A smog of displacement and destiny envelops the opening minutes of La Cocina. As a homeless man on the streets of Manhattan waxes poetic…
Filmgoers, and genre fans more specifically, know that it’s hard to mess up those little two-handers about a killer in an isolated space cat-and-mousing…