When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of effort…
Consistently divisive and successfully provocative, Sebastián Silva had existed in a seemingly charmed space — relative to that of the average, contemporary independent filmmaker…
Long serving as a fun bit of Internet trivia to stoke the engagement machine, fervently celebrated actor/writer/director Greta Gerwig’s canceled 2014 CBS pilot —…
The Kesha of today is and isn’t the same as the Ke$ha of 2010, whose debut album Animal featured six Billboard-topping singles, including “TiK…
While only a year out from the Big Ghost Ltd. collab tape What Has Been Blessed Cannot Be Cursed, Conway the Machine seems anxious…
In the wake of the mass protests that raged throughout Hong Kong for much of 2019 and the first half of last year, the…
At first, it wasn’t necessarily clear how seriously one should take Zelooperz, his defining traits being “Internet rap oddball” and “Danny Brown protege.” Discovered…
Saint-Narcisse isn’t LaBruce’s most audacious film, but it reflects a new, thoughtful instance of his particular audacity. There is surely more space in Hollywood for…
The last time we saw Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston on screen together as Nick and Audrey Spitz, the mid-life, middle-class Brooklynites were caught…
Three features into his career as director, and Louis Garrel’s vision remains unexpected and lively, channeled into decidedly comedic pieces that stand apart from…
The music documentary is a pretty dependable product, sure to find space in a number of festival nonfiction lineups and, eventually, the programs of…
Somewhere along the line, not all that long ago, Arnaud Desplechin ceased to be a marketable name in the U.S. film biz. While certainly…
Though it wasn’t actually that long ago, the pop music landscape into which Lil Yachty first emerged doesn’t really look the same as the…
For many, M. Night Shyamalan has never come out from under the shadow of his mid-career flop, the seven-year stretch between 2006 and 2013…
Banned from filmmaking for 20 years back in 2010 for making what the Iranian government deemed “propaganda against the system,” Jafar Panahi has nevertheless…
Taurus is ultimately too informed by MGK’s real-life persona and proves aimless as an attempt to contend with the great generational tragedy of its subject…
One Fine Morning doesn’t stand out in Hansen-Løve’s filmography, but there’s enough here to suggest that it could resonate more fully in the long term.…
There There executes a rather ingenious approach to the Covid shoot and delivers another win for Bujalski. Over the last few years, Andrew Bujalski’s career…