Eight Bridges James Benning is a master of moments. Over a career that spans five decades and twice as many modal deviations, Benning abstracts the…
February Reviews Week of February 1 Spotlight Pillion — Harry Lighton February 6 by Robert Stinner Read Review Genre Views The Strangers: Chapter 3 —…
Krakatoa If one were to conjure an impression of the apocalypse, it might be in the heart of sound — a detonation so vast and…
January Reviews Week of December 28 Genre Views We Bury the Dead — Zak Hilditch January 2 by Daniel Gorman Read Review Week of January…
Moonglow Writing in e-flux Journal on Klute’s semicentenary, Isabel Sandoval discussed in detail the immeasurable influence of Alan J. Pakula’s neo-noir crime thriller — especially…
Nightmare’s Advice Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk, along with their frequent collaborator Olivier Godin, represent an alternative stream of Quebecois cinema, one that is…
First Light Nearly five years ago, Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson hit the headlines after breaking into his alma mater St Kevin’s College, Melbourne’s elite…
Chronovisor Even when Jorge Luis Borges wrote screenplays, they weren’t necessarily “Borgesian” — not, that is, distilled into the particular pleasure of following one of…
December Reviews Week of November 30 Blockbuster Beat Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — Quentin Tarantino December 5, 2025 by Ethan J. Rosenberg Read…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
November Reviews Week of November 2 Streaming Scene Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro November 2, 2025 by Ethan J. Rosenberg Read Review Spotlight Die My…
Gone are the days of awards contenders being packed like sardines into December’s release calendar. Instead, in recent years October has become the prime launching…
Nouvelle Vague An older couple congratulates producer Georges de Beauregard on the success of his magnificent new film — politely interrupting young Jean-Luc Godard, who…
Die, My Love There comes a tale from an antique land. A King ruled over a thin Isthmus, above and below which were two unfathomably…
Hamnet A single work of art may, or may not, be able to change the world, but it can surely change a mind. To those…
Ballad of a Small Player To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson…