In an old interview with David Ehrlich, filmmaker and critic Kent Jones recalls a conversation with Arnaud Desplechin in which the great French director told…
Valerie Donzelli’s At Work has proven divisive since its festival premiere last year; a film about an artist’s existential ennui while searching for his authentic…
Richard Fleischer’s 1952 thriller The Narrow Margin is a tough, taut little gem, a masterclass in narrative economy and tight, claustrophobic mise-en-scène. Clocking in at barely…
It’s no secret that adapting video games into movies has a shockingly low success rate; adapting any medium to another has its own unique difficulties,…
Filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli took the 2020 TIFF Midnight Madness crowd by storm with their stunning debut feature Violation, an extremely dark,…
Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s 2023 no-budget feature New Strains was one of the few films interested in documenting the psychological reality of living through…
Kim Allamand and Michael Karrer’s new film First Days begins with a brief opening text, which reads in part, “in your first days after death…
We don’t have many stars like Jason Statham left. If the ‘80s gave us a plethora of iconic tough guys, the ensuing decades have whittled…
In 2014, Helen MacDonald released a memoir detailing the death of their beloved father, noted photojournalist Alisdair MacDonald, and their adoption of a goshawk as…
It’s bad form to criticize a movie for what it isn’t rather than engaging with what it actually is, but writer/director Zak Hilditch makes it…
As 2025 comes to a close and publications have all indulged the annual tradition of top 10 best -of lists, the Hollywood machine now kicks…
Tamara Kotevska’s The Tale of Silyan begins with a recounting of an old Macedonian fable. Young Silyan, tired of backbreaking labor on the family farm,…
Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a sprawling, expansive work that functions simultaneously as familial remembrance, a documentary on Black intellectualism in the 20th and…
Karim Leklou has a fascinating face, a seemingly unremarkable assemblage of features that acts like a blank slate; it’s a Kuleshov-effect visage. Director Clément Cogitore…
Jan Komasa’s Anniversary is an ungainly thing, a handsomely mounted prestige drama that appears at first to be a kind of “how we live now”…
It’s been a quarter century since The Blair Witch Project first terrorized unsuspecting audiences. In the ensuing years, it’s been difficult to find much innovation…
After the massive success of John Milius’ Conan the Barbarian in 1982, an avalanche of cheap sword-and-sorcery pictures flowed forth, eager to cash in on…
Hot on the heels of the exemplary Diablo, Scott Adkins, the hardest-working man in DTV action, is back with Prisoner of War. It’s a “big”…
Compulsion begins with a long, snaking POV tracking shot; we see only a pair of gloved hands as the camera enters a gated residence, scales…
Claire Simon’s new documentary portrait Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students is, for the most part, strikingly straightforward. Clocking…