“He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it.” — Ecclesiastes 10:8 They called him Von, the man in whom lived so many. Von Schnieditz, von…
When the world turned to shit approximately five years ago, satire marched ahead, determined to outpace the banality of lived reality. Old-school broadcasts and appeals…
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been arguably the greatest filmmaker of the last decade, his works across this period constituting one of the most impressive contemporary bodies…
Drifting Laurent The world of Drifting Laurent, the sophomore feature by directors Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon, is not too dissimilar from that…
Paul Vechhiali’s origins are not unfamiliar to the global cinephilia which is attracted to his films — born in 1930, raised on classic French cinema,…
Kontinental ’25 One would be hard-pressed to identify a film director on the world stage who has done a better job of articulating our historical…
Serpent’s Path Kiyoshi Kurosawa is our great purveyor of modern ennui, a chronicler of creeping existential dread as the world we have created now threatens…
Come a little closer and see — you need to inhale. No contemporary filmmaker understands California quite like Paul Thomas Anderson, who throughout his rightfully…
How do you solve a problem like Superman? This legendary IP has been sitting either unused or abused for the better part of 20 years, subject…
Every summer, film obsessives make the pilgrimage to Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato — a week of restorations, rediscoveries, and archival oddities projected in cinemas…
There probably isn’t a company on earth better associated with immediacy than Amazon. Unless one lives in the remotest regions of Canada or Alaska, there…
In Soñé Su Nombre (“I Dreamed His Name”)…
Ah, but first: an introduction. This is the first entry of Flashback, a new column hosted by In Review Online. Here, I play your very…
Before effective treatment was available for HIV/AIDS, many understandably sought out cures outside of conventional medicine for the illness ravaging their bodies. Louise Hay, a…
After the vaguely haunted house-esque shenanigans of Fallen Kingdom and the inexplicable focus on crop-eating superlocusts in Dominion, it appears the powers behind the Jurassic…
Cannes fatigue is real, and while a whole slew of titles noteworthy, contentious, or otherwise irresistible has earned the attention of the media, the gap…
Following Pacifiction, his seventh and most technically elaborate narrative film, Albert Serra did something unexpected: he produced his first full-length documentary. Afternoons of Solitude is…
Socrates: The main question I want to ask is whether a lifetime spent scratching, itching and scratching, no end of scratching, is also a life…
The purest, and arguably most puerile, definition of auteurism necessitates a neat classification of artistic idiosyncrasies. The governing principle behind this approach is to find…
Until semi-recently, Formula 1 racing was only immensely popular pretty much all over the world except in the United States, but a combination of the…