Smoking Causes Coughing
Get ready to board Quentin Dupieux's crazy train again with his latest endeavor, Smoking Causes Coughing (Fumer Fait Tousser), a sardonic pastiche of retro superhero shows like Mighty Morphin Power [...]
The Worst Ones
The Worst Ones, a French drama film directed by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, and a coming-of-age mockumentary which snagged itself the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2022, [...]
The Novelist’s Film
Hong Sang-soo's latest small-scale and intimate art-house truffle feels like a continuation from his previous film, In Your Face, in which an aging artist takes a casual visit to Seoul [...]
Enys Men
Bouncing between experimental horror and a retro throwback to 1970s era horror and parodic excess, Mark Jenkin's mind-bending horror opus Enys Men works best as a moody chamber piece that [...]
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons has been around since the mid-1970s. It was initially a sensation, though the fortunes of the game and the various companies that have [...]
A Good Person
Two deeply compelling characters desperately needing to find atonement after a devastating tragedy ruinously reconnect in Zach Braff's four-director feature A Good Person. Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman headline a [...]
John Wick: Chapter 4
It's hard to imagine a franchise that finds new and inventive ways to consistently deliver like the John Wick franchise. What began as a quest for revenge over a puppy [...]
Tori and Lokita
It is remarkable just how the Dardenne Brothers are still turning out emotionally charged and emotionally bleak films that hold deeply felt compassion nearly 30 years after making a splash [...]
The Lost King
King Richard III has long been a figure of historical and literary fascination. While some contemporary accounts describe him as a good ruler, particularly to common folk, his legacy has [...]
Boston Strangler
The latest in a long line of media adaptations about one of the darkest eras in Bostonian history, Matt Ruskin's Boston Strangler attempts to repurpose the prolific serial [...]