If there was reason to be cautiously optimistic about Universal’s remake of its horror franchise Wolf Man, it was the involvement of director Leigh…
To director Tommaso Santambrogio, to tell a story about people, you ought to tell the story of the places they inhabit. That could be…
Just barely after the advent of photography, the concept of putting a camera in a balloon was born. Taken long before commercial air travel,…
Marcello Mio, probably the first movie to appear in Cannes competition with the word “nepo baby” in its script, is part of an increasing…
From Ground Zero is an anthology of 22 stories from Gaza curated by Rashid Masharawi. The shorts range from straightforward documentations of daily life…
Den of Thieves, 2018’s Dad Movie par excellence, came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of brows high, low, and middle with equal…
How does one engage critically with Companion, a film whose chief attribute and function is as a plot twist delivery machine? Even its very…
The best thing that can be said for co-writer/director Þórður Pálsson’s debut feature film The Damned is that it looks and feels like a…
Grand Theft Hamlet is not what it says on the tin. Opening shots of landscape simulacra make readily apparent the aesthetic promise of staging…
35 years have passed since Wallace, the affable human inventor, and Gromit, his silent but otherwise exceedingly human-like and exceptionally faithful canine companion, made…
Over the past few years, Netflix has, to various degrees, made gestures toward bringing beloved box-office stars from Millennial childhoods like Lindsay Lohan, Winona…
Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, after premiering at last year’s Venice Film Festival and winning the festival’s prize for Best Screenplay, amassed an unforeseen…
If simplicity forms the premise of Andrew and Sam Zuchero’s Love Me, subtlety, however, is the last thing to constitute its payoff. Taking a…
Director Neil Burger first formed the idea that would spawn the globe-spanning espionage thriller Inheritance during the early, claustrophobic period of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel are a contemporary duo whose work rebukes and inquires into the reactionary, philosophical response to an accelerated technological development,…
“You’re safe. You’re totally safe,” says Terry Masear to a small hummingbird named Wasabi in the opening moments of Every Little Thing. The documentary,…
An improbable 14 films in, and the Star Trek franchise has finally delivered its first truly unwatchable feature film. It’s difficult to think of…
Activism often dictates that form follows function, and that the message must come through at all costs — even if it should sacrifice the…