All We Imagine As Light
A visually sublime and richly intimate exploration of womanhood and friendship in India, and an impressive sophomore feature by Payal Kapadia. All We Imagine as Light is both elliptical and [...]
Small Things like These
Tim Midlands's Small Things Like These is a heavy, distressing watch—involving flashbacks about a troubled childhood—but it also offers levels of courage that resonate thanks to a devoted, soul-searching performance [...]
A Real Pain
There are many actors that pivot towards directing, and often they have an uphill battle; some succeed more than others, and whether or not critics and audiences approve of their [...]
Blitz
Just because Steve McQueen made a WWII movie doesn't mean it's this contrived Oscar "Bait" movie, as some other reviewers have labeled it. For starters, McQueen has always delivered emotionally [...]
Emilia Perez
Emilia Perez is a gritty musical in the vein of Sergio Leone, a fearless fever dream in the spirit of Nicholas Refn's Too Old To Die Young meets the work [...]
Rumours
Presumably starting off as a political satire, but then eventually pivoting into a very dry and unfunny comedy, the filmmaker trio of Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson latest [...]
Conclave
People of faith and non-believers alike may find Conclave enjoyable. With so many religious movies released anymore, Conclave offers a refreshing anecdote of the films that now has Ben Shapiro [...]
We Live in Time
What probably read out like a Lifetime or Hallmark movie during a table read, and what probably would still be one if in lesser hands, Joe Crowley's We Live in [...]
Anora
Sean Baker's Anora carries on his neo-realist portraits of sex workers in crisis, and it's one of his funniest, saddest, and most dramatically satisfying films yet. It plays out like [...]
The Apprentice
Just as with Oliver Stone's political films, Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi has delivered an undeniably engaging and deeply disturbing biopic on Donald Trump's rise to corporate power in the late [...]