A pervasive distrust has infiltrated a German middle school in Ilker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge, roiling both the students and the faculty. Insinuations fly freely, along with…
In October of 1972, a chartered airplane carrying four dozen people including a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and families crashed in the Andes. Those who weren’t killed upon impact or in…
Discussing Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw, a dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich clan whose importance to professional wrestling has stretched across decades and multiple generations, in any great…
Scanning the logline alone of Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is enough to engender a double-take, although less for its audaciousness and more out of an…
As in this past winter’s Knock at the Cabin, a would-be idyllic vacation serves as microcosm for fissures in the great American experiment, in addition…
An environmental disaster has rendered, seemingly, the entire world uninhabitable, with the last remnants of humanity clinging to a relic of the past, representing the…
As a television actor whose first directorial effort, a spiky genre mash-up that nebulously spoke to the zeitgeist, won an Academy Award for their screenwriting,…
Consider the fortunes of Taika Waititi in just the last five years. Briefly heralded as one of the more exciting voices in pop filmmaking —…
Taking inspiration from the Mary Kay Letourneau-Vili Fualaau scandal that roiled the tabloids for much of the ’90s, Todd Haynes’ May December is, at its most basic…
Back in the mid-2000s, there was an Internet phenomenon called “Ever Dream This Man?” in which thousands of strangers around the globe claimed to collectively…
The age-old question of how to know if your romantic partner is “the one” is a confrontation that every couple has encountered at some point.…
Sofia Coppola has been chronicling the private spaces and inner lives of young women for her entire career and her new film Priscilla — an…
A sobering reminder of the minefield the Internet can be for women, the documentary Another Body, from filmmakers Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn, is perhaps…
The suburban opioid crisis, like the war on terror and the ‘08 financial collapse before it, finally gets the smug “explainer video” treatment. After faintly…
The most revealing — in more ways than one — moment in Nyad, a biopic of the sixty-something marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, is a prolonged…
Filmmakers have been trying to figure out how to follow in the cloven hoof-steps of 1973’s zeitgeist-exploding The Exorcist almost since it was released, and,…
The inspiration for Maggie Betts’ The Burial was an actual court case that took place in Mississippi in 1995, in which Jeremiah O’Keefe, the former…
Artificial intelligence as a source of existential angst is having quite the moment in pop culture. A central issue in this past summer’s two major…
Set almost entirely in and around a grimy, uninviting tavern in the Australian outback, Kitty Green’s follow-up to 2019’s The Assistant, The Royal Hotel, serves as an expansion of that film’s themes of…
A pitiless Midnight Madness title about demonic possession, the pressing questions going into a film like IFC’s When Evil Lurks really boil down to “just…
Much has been written over the last few years of how the limited dramatic series has eroded the market for the mid-sized, adult-themed, star-driven drama…