Sing Sing
Despite getting off to a very slow release rollout by A24 films, Greg Kweder's Sing Sing should find its audience due being a genuine crowd-pleaser that avoids being manipulative or [...]
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver's Between the Temples is one of those unique films that feels like it's made in the 1970s. It is very much a modern take on Harold and Maude, [...]
2009 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2009
Most modern film buffs and pundits are fans of 2009 cinema. Many treasure the year for its box-office spectacles like Avatar and other high-caliber genre films like District 9, and [...]
Didi
Certainly, an impressive debut feature, Sean Wang's Sundance darling Didi echoes other recent coming-of-age stories like Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret and Mid90s, which are nostalgic pieces about [...]
National Anthem
What could have been an opportunist film filled with queer archetypes and gazes, Luke Gifford's National Anthem instead is a visually poetic, sensually designed, and liberating adventure about the power [...]
Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos's surrealist, wickedly funny horror/dark comedy Kinds of Kindness may be more in line with his earlier Greek films, but its otherworldly tone and rich style, with themes that [...]
1999 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1999
W hat a remarkable year 1999 was. It was in a period long before streaming services, and virtually everyone went to the movies and the box-office wasn't in draught. It [...]
Tuesday
Daina O. Pusić sophomore feature Tuesday attempts to be a fantasy drama about death, and in that regard, it holds some endearing and equally bizarre moments, but mostly it's a [...]
Young Woman and the Sea
Familiar but engaging, Joachim Rønning's biographical sports drama, about the taxing journey of swimmer Trudy Ederle and how she was the first swimmer to swim across the English Channel, certainly [...]
Hit Man
Maverick filmmaker Richard Linklater returns to live-action after his overlooked retro-animated Apollo 10 1/2 with Hit Man, a cleverly scripted romantic action comedy that is highly enjoyable with a charismatic [...]