Minari
Lee Isaac Chung's "Minari" clutches you from the very start, with stunning landscape shots and inserts of nature that instantly draws comparisons and influences from Terrence Malick where humans realize [...]
Black Bear
Lawrence Michael Levine is a part of the second generation of mumblecore filmmakers. Mumblecore is a “genre” of film in a way, but more so was a group of filmmakers [...]
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist
‘The Exorcist’ is one of the most iconic films in film history, and quite frankly, one of the most iconic pieces of art in general. Most people have no doubt [...]
Time
A truly gifted filmmaker, Garrett Bradley has been crafting shorts and small independent feature films for the last 8 years. This year, Bradley was awarded best director in the U.S. [...]
Feels Good Man
Remember when Pepe the Frog was charming and innocent before the popular meme character was turned into a hate symbol? This would have been in the mid- late 2000s, and [...]
Lingua Franca
Authentic transgender driven films are rarely featured as genuine or as honestly as Isabel Sandoval's "Lingua Franca", the latest intimate and emotionally raw indie film which is one of the [...]
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Easily the most cerebral, misanthropic, slightly flawed, yet liberating of Charlie Kaufman's work, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" blends the limits of surrealism and horror into a feature-length drama that [...]
Tenet (Noah’s Take)
Christopher Nolan's infatuation with the inner workings of time has been at the forefront of his filmography since his very first feature, 1998's Following, a film told out of order. [...]
Palm Springs
A high-concept film–a romcom about a potential couple trapped in a time loop as they live the same day over and over--"Palm Springs" is a hysterical, often witty and charming [...]
Da 5 Bloods
“Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee's follow-up to his Oscar adaptation of “BlacKkKlansman,” is another impassioned and timely rendition of the challenges of our modern era. Top-lined by Delroy Lindo, who [...]