Latvian cinema, and especially animation, has been under either a spotlight or a microscope, depending on the vantage point, since Flow took home the country’s…
It would be naïve to assume a documentary featuring a revolutionary subject would de facto pursue fidelity with the revolution. No artistic mandate exists requiring…
The world has changed a lot since The Collingswood Story pioneered Screenlife storytelling in 2002. Nickelback had the top single that year, mid-budget films still…
In 2018, Saudi Arabia opened its first movie theaters in more than three decades. Just a few short years later, production began on the $150…
About a million Russians have left their country since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fleeing the draft and/or political repercussions for dissent.…
In a depressive musical landscape where the only things pop stars seem to sing about are wanting to have sex, having sex, and regretting having…
The Bluff isn’t the same kind of pirate film as Pirates of the Caribbean. Unlike the leviathan Disney franchise, The Bluff has very little seafaring,…
Very few actors elevate low-budget action cinema like Milla Jovovich, who is front and center in all of the marketing of Brad Anderson’s latest genre…
As the economic and political importance of Hong Kong expanded exponentially in the second half of the 20th century, so did the reach of its…
A tasteless trend in movie marketing to reveal titles one letter at a time transitioned seamlessly into movie-making at some point in the last decade…
I once carpooled from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to my small hometown in Northeast Ohio with a stranger. She was an attractive woman…
Lithuanian-French Jewish philosopher and Shoah survivor Emmanuel Levinas once opined that “the first word of the face is ‘Thou shalt not kill.’” The human face,…
Kim Byung-woo’s fifth directorial effort, The Great Flood, first shows An-na (Kim Da-mi) resignedly trying to quell her six-year-old son Ja-in’s (Kwon Eun-seong) insistent and…
“The year you were born,” reads the opening title card to Palestine 36. It’s a daunting prescription that also invites the viewer into the story.…
Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk seems likely to be the most important film to screen at the 2025…
Good News opens with members of the Japanese militant communist group Red Army Faction — armed with pistols, katanas, and a bomb — hijacking Japan…
The most prolific filmmaker in the Baltics has returned. Šarūnas Bartas, the director behind The House and Peace to Us in Our Dreams, has been…
Aki is a film of abundance. The world it envisions and celebrates is lifegiving and beautiful. Most of Aki, a title that translates from Anishinaabemowin…
What’s the worst thing that can come from a threesome? The storied history of cinematic threesomes and group sex rarely end well. Most often, relationships…
“We can’t stay down anymore!” This line from war-victim acting veteran Ni Ni is delivered as Ah Hua captures the galvanizing and inspirational spirit of…
The exorcism and possession subgenre has been at a creative stall basically since its heyday in the 1970s. The panoply of genre tropes looks more…