Across three features Tyler Taormina has cemented himself as one of the most vital contemporary voices in American cinema. After the positive reception to…
Oh, Canada The title gives it away. Before one even begins watching Paul Schrader’s latest, the tone is effectively set by a little writerly…
While technically a “Covid film,” shot on weekends with friends and family during the first wave of lockdowns in early 2020, Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s…
The Unknown Country Non-fiction scenarios and non-professional actors are often characterized as so rich and unpredictable that all a director needs to be is…
Rimini The curtain doesn’t quite fall in wintry Rimini, this latest nondescript and non-place in life’s long march toward certain death. In Ulrich Seidl’s…
Ham on Rye is a welcome departure from the typical trappings of a coming-of-age film. Coming-of-age narratives make up a significant proportion of contemporary…