1995 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1995
The 1990s will always be perceived as a superlative decade for cinema. Especially 1995, a year where so many films brewed into classics as the years went by. From game-changing [...]
Jay Kelly
George Clooney is one of our finest modern actors, and he now has his most meta role in the latest Noah Baumbach film titled Jay Kelly. The script that is [...]
Sentimental Value
One of the most emotionally charged films of the year is also one of the most rewarding. Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value might appear to be another backstage drama about filmmaking [...]
Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love—which is her first feature in 8 years-- is a superbly directed movie, even if it falters quite a bit in the third act. It's an [...]
It Was Just an Accident
Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi returns with his greatest film to date in his impressive filmography, It Was Just an Accident, a dramatically charged and timely political thriller that is [...]
Bugonia
Just midway through his career, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos jumped from Greek cinema into American movies—including some indie cult classics like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer—to [...]
Frankenstein
Wintry, chilling, and captivating, Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a breathtaking retelling of the classic two-century-old novel; it's a horror movie that feels Shakespearian in just [...]
After the Hunt
Director Luca Guadagnino's exceptional and dramatically charged double features from last year, Challengers and Queer, were both skillfully made films that didn't quite get the year-end movie push as they [...]
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Actress and filmmaker Mary Bronstein who is the wife of frequent Safdie Bros collaborator Ronald Bronstein directs her first film since her 2008 film Yeast, that co-stars Greta Gerwig. Based [...]
A House of Dynamite
Kathryn Bigelow's taut, engrossing docudrama A House of Dynamite uses a hypothetical narrative approach as it dives deep in its real time duration of three points of views that involves [...]