The Housemaid
Due to its content and source material, Paul Feig's domestic psychological thriller film The Housemaid asks a lot from the viewer in terms of plausibility, perception, and plot turns in [...]
Marty Supreme
We have seen quite a few uncompromising sports films this year; just a few months ago we had Benny Safdie's solo directorial offering with The Smashing Machine, which was a [...]
Hamnet
Emotionally stirring and powerfully moving, but a deeply fulfilling journey, Chloe Zhao's historical drama Hamnet holds a deep emotional resonance long after the credits roll. Based on the 2020 novel [...]
The Secret Agent
Most spy movies are overwhelmed with severe plotting and are multi-layered with an objective amount of espionage that often contains double-crosses, betrayal, and twists and turns. Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça [...]
Eternity
David Freyne's debut feature Eternity holds a very clever buildup and second act when it focuses on the humor of the afterlife, and it even holds some human complexity [...]
1995 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1995
The 1990s will always be perceived as a superlative decade for cinema. Especially 1995, a year where so many films brewed into classics as the years went by. From game-changing [...]
Jay Kelly
George Clooney is one of our finest modern actors, and he now has his most meta role in the latest Noah Baumbach film titled Jay Kelly. The script that is [...]
Sentimental Value
One of the most emotionally charged films of the year is also one of the most rewarding. Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value might appear to be another backstage drama about filmmaking [...]
Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love—which is her first feature in 8 years-- is a superbly directed movie, even if it falters quite a bit in the third act. It's an [...]
It Was Just an Accident
Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi returns with his greatest film to date in his impressive filmography, It Was Just an Accident, a dramatically charged and timely political thriller that is [...]