Year in Review: The Best Films of 2025
As I walked out of the New York Film Festival back in the fall, I knew I could easily develop a top ten list upon the festival because I knew [...]
Splitsville
Splitsville is a film about two couples in comedic, dramatic and all too real emotional peril, with performances and situations that will feel both fresh and familiar. It is, at times, [...]
Song Sung Blue
Director Craig Brewer has been a relatively overlooked filmmaker in the time since his debut film Hustle and Flow emerged to commercial and critical acclaim back in 2005. Despite somewhat [...]
Cover-Up
Seymour Hersh is one of the preeminent investigative journalists of the last seventy-five years, with a legacy stretching from the War in Vietnam to the present day. In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras [...]
Father Mother Sister Brother
Like his previous films (Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Night on Earth), Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, is separated by vignettes rather than a traditional narrative, [...]
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook's follow-up to his highly acclaimed Decision to Leave in 2022 and The Handmaiden in 2016 has now crafted the film of his career with No Other Choice. This [...]
Resurrection
Resurrection is only the third film in 10 years by Bi Gan, who is up there with Jia Zhangke and Zhang Ziyi, who are perhaps the most visually mesmerizing, poetic, [...]
2010 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2010
Reflecting back to the state of cinema from 2010 to now shows both a progression and regression in how we watch films. Sadly, so many boutique films in the metro [...]
Orwell: 2+2=5
George Orwell is one of the most complex figures of the modern world. Philosopher and author, his influence is such that his name has become an invocation of a certain [...]
The Housemaid
Due to its content and source material, Paul Feig's domestic psychological thriller film The Housemaid asks a lot from the viewer in terms of plausibility, perception, and plot turns in [...]