In Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, grief bums around like a third wheel. It is needy, morose, fickle; the sort of guest that says they’re not…
Director Michael Dowse is no stranger to the rough-edged antihero, but perhaps he’s a bit less in touch with the management of thematic conciliation when…
In this dispatch: Ink, Mr. Nelson, Did You…
“Fleet Flick From Fleet Street!” That could be the Sun headline for Danny Boyle’s boisterous adaptation of James Graham’s 2017 play about the transformation of…
The title of Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest foray into historical war drama comes from a question asked by a child to a Vietnam War veteran. Allen…
The dovetailing of a post-Free Solo film landscape with the advent of a mass production, streaming-focused documentary apparatus — exacerbated by the home-viewing requirements and…
How to escape from the bottom of the barrel? In Ferit Karahan’s Djinn Wedding, a family in desperation moves into an abandoned house in rural…
Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has staked out a strong, consistent ethic across his career. His films champion the cause of the outcast, the foreigner, the…
It’s hard to talk about Richie Mehta’s Phoolan without first talking about Bandit Queen and Arundhati Roy. In 1994 in India, writer Arundhati Roy was…
“Medical assistance in dying,” or MAID in Canada, is the country’s assisted suicide legal framework. The framework is now a decade old, and its use…
A committed revolutionary who doesn’t see his filmmaking practice as something separate from his revolutionary aims, Masao Adachi has consistently stuck to his guns under…
In this dispatch: Love of Your Life, Drifter…
Here’s the thing about competitive drift racing: it has very little to do with who crosses a finish line first. Instead, it’s a pastime focused…
The raw, almost feral energy that Margaret Qualley can bring to her best roles often exists in fascinating tension with the serenity of her wide-eyed…
Is it possible for an entire nation to have an inside joke? Manitoba-based filmmaker Matthew Rankin’s brilliant new film Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney zeroes…
Some directors pick a lane and stay in it their entire careers. Some genre-hop, exploring different styles and methods, courting different audiences. So it’s of…
Western movies come with certain promises: of adventure and lawlessness, of chiseled jaws and gun smoke, of riding into the sunset with the horizon for…
Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado’s The Fortunate Isles begins with images of gently undulating water accompanied by a brief text providing historical context for their…
Carol Nguyen is a Canadian-Vietnamese filmmaker who has steadily climbed the ladder of the national industry since her prolific run of breakout short projects, in…
Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto forged his legendary cult status with ultraviolent, psychosexual Japanese films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tokyo Fist, and A Snake in…
Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom, most likely a studio somewhere near Bristol, though it may as well be mistaken…