EO
While Jerzy Skoimowski's EO is being billed and labeled as "a modern-day retelling of Robert Bresson's Au Hazard Balthazar," the film stands on its own as a modern update that [...]
She Said
It's a rarity when an international filmmaker is able to make a transfer from their homeland to an American studio film and still succeed, After high acclaim with last year's [...]
Bad Axe
It will always be hard to imagine the year 2020 and not think of just how distressing of a year it was. Not only did we have the COVID-19 global [...]
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
In an era where a majority of films attempt to play it safe in order to turn a profit, two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Bardo, False Chronicle of a [...]
Descendant
As the winners write the history books, so much history is left whitewashed, and some communities and individuals only have stories left that are passed on from our descendants. Not [...]
Causeway
Two isolated soul's cross paths and form an undeniable bond in Causeway, a superbly acted and exquisitely crafted character study that has a story that is all too familiar in [...]
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
At first, this "biopic" on Weird Al Yankovic starts by hitting all the beats and formulas of the Hollywood biopic genre, before co-writer and director Eric Appel and co-writer/producer "Weird [...]
The Wonder
Spirituality collides with science in Sebastian Lelio's latest period film, titled The Wonder. While suffocated with implausible detours and anchored by its elegant craftsmanship, The Wonder casts an irresistible spell [...]
Armageddon Time
Absorbing and poignant, casually didactic and deeply personal, James Gray's Armageddon Time ends up being as engaging as it is uneven and glum. A fictionalized look at the filmmaker's childhood [...]
The Banshees of Inisherin
In a return to his roots, renowned British-Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh does wonders in The Banshees of Inisherin. Marking his first film in the U.K. with an original [...]