All That Breathes offers a cogent diagnosis of our climate change predicament, suggesting a tentative hope for the future while recognizing the untenability of the…
At this point, there have been so many movies about Covid, either directly or by inference, that it’s barely necessary to make a note of…
McKee’s latest might be enough for his diehard fans, but its stretched runtime makes any interesting happenings too little, too late. Lucky McKee’s best films…
Project Wolf Hunting is a symphony of wanton destruction, a splatter-heavy genre mash-up that’s so cartoonishly garish as to become absurdly funny. A symphony of wanton…
Piggy is a startlingly visceral and bloody affair happy to indict and wreak revenge upon a toxic modern society. The pros and cons of virtual festivals…
Masking Threshold is one of the best films ever conceived about what it means to be terminally online, though its final act turn toward more traditional…
Vesper is undeniably indebted to a long lineage of sci-fi antecedents, but its peculiar character and keen visual style keeps this a cut above your typical…
A jumbled mess of clichés and empty symbols in search of deeper meaning, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon does little more than usher viewers down a…
Sissy wants to have its cake and eat it too, but all of its many ingredients don’t add up to anything new or satisfying. Viewers of…
Taming the Garden is a beautiful and brutal work, Jashi both in awe of the work her camera captures and aware of its destructive nature. Salomé…
Carolina Markowicz’s debut feature-length film Charcoal posits a simple moral quandary — would you put an infirm elderly person out of their misery for the…
The African Desperate is a fascinating, assured debut anchored by a star-making turn from Stingily and Syms’ confident formalism. The first few minutes of Martine Syms’ The African…
A renowned photographer, writer, and video artist, Moyra Davey has been making art for over four decades, garnering a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and numerous…
In an interview with Michael Guarneri, Lav Diaz states quite emphatically that “tragedy and suffering are an inherent part of man’s existence and death is…
The Cathedral is D’Ambrose’s portrait of the artist as a young man, a bracingly vigorous work and a precise survey of emotional turmoil. After a series…
Speak No Evil is a grueling experience in the best possible sense, punctuating by a giddily mean-spirited and pitch-perfect ending. Like an unholy amalgamation of Michael…
Despite his reputation as a mainstream hit-maker, Zemeckis has always had a wildly idiosyncratic relationship to both genre and film history. Not as obsessed with…
After nearly a decade of directing expensive mo-cap animated films to variable box-office returns, the 2010s found Robert Zemeckis at a crossroads. The massive critical…
Saloum is an absolute blast, packed with pleasant genre surprises and announcing a major new filmmaker in Jean Luc Herbulot. Part of the joy of…
Tin Can is the best kind of sci-fi, an equal mix of weirdo ideas and careful world-building that leads viewers to a genuinely unsettling conclusion.…