2012 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2012
2012 was one of those years where studios didn't put out too many greatly impressive films. The Dark Knight Rises didn't live up to expectations, and so many of the awards [...]
Bones and All
An impulsive misfit finds true love with a mysterious drifter in the bizarrely romantic horror-road movie Bones and All. The film echoes Claire Denis' cannibal love story Trouble Every Day [...]
The Fabelmans
An emotionally complex, sentimental journey through the joyful and equally tormented memories of iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg's artistic origins and formative years, Spielberg's latest film, The Fabelmans, is his own [...]
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 [...]