If not united by one distinct way of seeing the world, the works of L.A.-based collective Omnes Films do all encourage their viewers to…
Lucy Kerr’s debut feature Family Portrait is a startling discovery. An elliptical puzzle of a film that circles around a mystery that is never…
Joel Potrykus offered viewers a kind of hell on earth in 2014 when he released Buzzard, a crusty cumrag of a movie about the…
Asif Kapadia has had an enviably diverse career as a director, but he’s established himself over the last 15 years — across three films,…
Steady hums and inverted camerawork in the early moments of Justin Anderson’s psychological drama Swimming Home are strategies of disorientation, signaling its intent to…
Kit Zauhar should probably be one of the shining bastions of American independent cinema today. Her two features to date represent two forms of…
The capacity to imagine a better future is integral to any successful progressive movement. Amidst historic protests around the United States against both the…
Death hangs over Jeff Rutherford’s keenly observed and poignant feature debut, A Perfect Day for Caribou. We meet Herman (Jeb Barrier), a scruffy, world-weary…
Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz are a fascinating couple, and Jacob Permutter and Manon Ouimet’s new film about their marriage, Two Strangers Trying Not…
Joe McNally says he still sees things through nine-year-old eyes — eyes that, now in their late-’50s, once witnessed the murder of his teenage…