“U.S. history is a branch of a larger tree of history… but it’s that covetous branch that thinks it’s the tree.” Proffered somewhere partway…
There’s no denying the sheer aesthetic appeal of Laura McGann’s The Deepest Breath. Charting the mind-boggling freediving efforts of Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan,…
Anime has always been more inclined toward YA-facing and -reflecting projects than most other film genres, perhaps only rivaled by the short-lived post-Harry Potter…
Nimona, the animated film adaption of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel of the same name — itself an expanded print edition of the cartoonist’s popular…
There’s the kernel of a fascinating Frankenstein adaptation at the center of Bomani J. Story’s directorial debut, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster.…
So far as vanity projects go, Shooting Stars is a refreshingly humble affair, which is perhaps fitting for a global superstar — LeBron James…
There’s always at least a modicum of interest stirred up when well-known actors take a turn in the director’s chair. More often than not,…
Since its launch in November 2019 — fortuitous timing for a streaming service to enter the public sphere — Disney+ has padded its subscriber…
There’s no denying a certain charm inherent to the Broken Lizard crew. Grating as they almost certainly are to your mom, there’s always been…
A beguiling amalgam of classic opera sensibility, modern dance performance, and Badlands-esque, lovers-on-the-run romantic tragedy, Benjamin Millepied’s Carmen is a deeply idiosyncratic and electrifying…
Superficially, it would be easy to locate filmmaking duo Jimmy Chin and Elisabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary inclinations at some loose nexus of survival stories,…
Film boasts a rich history of dance. From the halcyon, mid-century years of studio musicals all the way to the early-aughts onslaught of middling,…
While global headlines are presently dominated by Russia’s ongoing onslaught of imperialist atrocity, Alexander Abaturov’s Paradise turns its eye to the country’s east, where…
Best known as one of three credited writers on Joseph Kahn’s 14-minute Power Rangers (2015) short — alongside the director and James Van Der…
Alberto Vázquez is the sleeper MVP of the film animation world. Japanese auteurs like Makato Shinkai, Masaaki Yuasa, and Mamoru Hosoda have comfortably slid…
Adapted from Claire Keegan’s novella Foster, out for over a decade in the author’s home Ireland but only just hitting U.S. shelves at the…
Director Goran Stolevski has given his sophomore feature, Of an Age, a suitably malleable title that effectively expresses the various thematic and emotional preoccupations…
As we move ever further into the streaming age, the question of what exactly constitutes a film continues to blur. No longer tethered to…