Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Just shy of five years ago, the unexpected Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a shot in the arm to the comic book genre. With its distinct approach to [...]
Moon Garden
Centering a film on a child’s performance can be a great risk for a filmmaker. On one hand, as all of us were once children, and many are parents, there [...]
Monica
Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro revisits the central themes of alienation, identity, and family that were found in his first two films, Medas (2013) and Hannah (2017), to even greater impact [...]
The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl, the debut film by Laurel Palmet, could more aptly be titled: “that Starling girl,” just by the way it victimizes its main character alone. It’s a story about [...]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Less than ten years ago, Marvel studios took what was deemed their first real risk, making a film featuring a d-list roster of Marvel heroes, alongside their most popular heroes, [...]
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Adapting older source material to the screen with charming and honest effect, filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig's sophomore feature, Are You There God? It's Me, Marget, delivers a poignant portrait of [...]
Evil Dead Rise
The dream duo of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are back with another entry in the popular horror franchise, The Evil Dead. Now overseeing Irish director Lee Cronin, Evil Dead [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Air
Ben Affleck’s latest directorial pursuit sees him at the helm of a corporate biopic, Air, which is ostensibly a movie about shoe giant Nike, but winds up being more about [...]