Beau is Afraid
Every so often, a major studio will greenlight highly ambitious and personal projects for high-profile artists once they reach a monumental success. Ari Aster swings big in his third feature, [...]
1993 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1993
1993 was a remarkable year, a year where Schindler's List dominated the conversation and held a critical consensus of being the film of the year that went on to win [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]