Film Reviews & Insights
Rare Objects
Over the course of the past five years or so, it has become more common to see compassionate films come out that boldly explore the traumas of sexual assault and [...]
Mafia Mamma
While the mafia comedy has certainly run its course in cinema, it hardly needs another addition: we have had some sharply funny ones previously with such titles like [...]
Joyland
While we have had our fair share of very compelling pieces of LGBTQ cinema recently with such titles as Of an Age, The Blue Caftan, Port Authority, and Lingua Franca, to name [...]
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
In How to Blow Up a Pipeline, one of the most suspenseful and taut political thrillers released recently, filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber delivers a satisfying blend of suspense and social commentary. [...]
Air
Ben Affleck’s latest directorial pursuit sees him at the helm of a corporate biopic, Air, which is ostensibly a movie about shoe giant Nike, but winds up being more about [...]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
As a child of the 90's, Nintendo, and the characters of the Mushroom Kingdom have been a critical asset of my upbringing. Whether it was staying up late at a [...]
Paint
While making a parody of a iconic American painter like Bob Ross sounds like a sealed deal, however, filmmaker Brit McAdams and his muse Owen Wilson never quite reach its [...]
Showing Up
After debuting a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, Kelly Reichardt's eighth feature titled Showing Up finally gets its North American release. It stars frequent collaborator Michelle [...]
A Thousand and One
In her remarkable feature directorial debut, A.V. Rockwell's poignantly rendered A Thousand and One goes head-on with some very potent issues such as race in America, our flawed institutions, the [...]
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, [...]