“Knights are now rooks! All bishops must leave the board! Pawns can now fly!” — not a surrealist pamphlet upon obvious improvements to the game…
The Young Mothers Home Immersing yourself in a new film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is akin to reluctantly catching up with an old friend.…
Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are doled…
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell burst onto the screen in a flash of color, sparkle, and song. With no exposition, or even opening credits, the…
It Was Just an Accident Despite its almost apologetic title, the latest feature from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bears a highly incendiary load. Not quite…
Do you have two hours to kill and enjoy, say, breezy, brazenly derivative adventure movies? Well then, buckle up, because your prime weekend streaming content…
Eugene Kotlyarenko is a filmmaker invested in making sense of our current technology-driven world. His camera frame often has live action footage sharing the screen…
Eddington 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…
Josef von Sternberg always had a materialistic streak — it was a necessity to produce the kind of effects he was chasing. He never embraced…
The soldiers of Roberto Minervini’s The Damned play cards, wander around, and casually debate theology. The year is 1862, and these Union soldiers find themselves…
Sound of Falling Melancholy, that inexplicable feeling of pensiveness, constitutes the centerpiece of memory, at least when memory divulges itself to its owner and defers…
Credit where it’s due: Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sort of fiasco that Canadian pop superstar The Weeknd has been concertedly building toward over several…
The Final Destination franchise is anything you want it to be. Its six not-so-varied variations of death engaging in a cruelly one-sided game of chess…
Coming-of-age films are rarely as frank about the relationship between sex and politics as André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds. The film traces the lives of students…
Over the last 30 years, the Mission: Impossible series has mutated from a simple blockbuster star vehicle, to an action director’s showcase for the likes…
Violent Cop as a title stands emblematic of the far simpler film that could have been. It’s a title straight out of the rural garage…
Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides, currently in U.S. theaters after initially premiering nearly a year ago at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May…
Over the course of three seasons, I Think You Should Leave has cemented Tim Robinson as a genuinely iconic comedic performer. With episodes under 20…
How does one definitively characterize a child’s point of view? Is it by positioning it as a response to the stultifying cynicism of adulthood, exemplified…
Titles are a funny thing. Adapted from a 2020 novel of the same name, Eli Craig’s horror-comedy Clown in a Cornfield takes the same tact as recent…
It makes sense that Joel Potrykus has remained a Michigan filmmaker his entire career. His rebellious, don’t-ask-permission attitude is right at home in a state…