Nestled in David Lowery’s filmography, between his Badlands-indebted Sundance breakthrough Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and his quietly shattering journey across the eons, A Ghost Story,…
Arriving just 70 seconds into the film, the inciting incident of Damián David Szifron’s To Catch a Killer might break some kind of informal record…
The latest installment of the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, opens with a sequence that will be instantly recognizable to longtime fans of the…
Joaquin Phoenix’s first scene in Beau Is Afraid takes place in his therapist’s office, setting the story in motion while also presenting a roadmap of…
“Adapted” from Andreas Malm’s 2021 climate change manifesto of the same name, Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline shoots out of the gate…
A boogeyman from a time that predates 24-hour news cycles, podcasts, and true crime docuseries, the Boston Strangler represents something of an unsolvable problem for…
One of the most accomplished actors of his generation, equally adept at conveying volcanic rage and soft-spoken humility, Adam Driver’s greatest gift arguably is that…
When Jamie Dack’s Palm Trees and Power Lines premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, it was against the backdrop of a roiling and mostly…
Very loosely inspired by a colorful real-life incident that sadly didn’t end well for the animal in question, Cocaine Bear is a period horror-comedy that…
A Type A careerist finds her life spinning out of control after the man she’s long harbored feelings for announces his intentions of marrying a…
Though still relatively early in his career, initial indications are that arterial spray and pulverized bones are to Brandon Cronenberg’s filmography what unnatural orifices are…
When we meet Algee Smith’s Brandon in Thembi L. Banks’ feature debut, Young. Wild. Free., he’s already beset by external stressors. A high school senior…
Emancipation attempts, and mightily fails, to balance a film stodgy enough to play in a high school classroom with Hollywood’s typically rousing approach to historical epic…