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 [...]
Come See Me in the Good Light
Some films tell a simple story, and others a very complex one. Some are done with lots of feeling but very little style. Others, all style and no substance. Rarely [...]
The Alabama Solution
The Alabama Solution is a vital work of investigation and advocation. Concerned with the prison system in the United States, though centered on the Alabama Department of Corrections-and specifically, on a [...]
The Perfect Neighbor
Documentary is a tricky thing to do, and it is easy to completely destroy a topic and argument by offering too much or too little. Sometimes, this involves heavy editorializing [...]
Keeper
Osgood Perkins has made a name for himself as one of the horror genre's most prolific filmmakers in recent times. In just his third film in two years, Perkins has [...]
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Little Amelie or the Character of Rain is an unusual and deeply moving animated film based on an unlikely source. Amelie Nothomb is a Belgian novelist who wrote Metaphysiques des tubes, which [...]
Predator: Badlands
After the franchise was nearly derailed by the disaster that was Shane Black's 2018 The Predator, the fan-favorite series has made its long-awaited return to the big screen. Dan Trachtenberg, [...]
Nouvelle Vague
The French New Wave is one of the most important movements in the history of cinema, and Jean-Luc Godard is one of the prime movers within. His film, Breathless, released in 1960, [...]
Bugonia
Just midway through his career, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos jumped from Greek cinema into American movies—including some indie cult classics like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer—to [...]
Frankenstein
Wintry, chilling, and captivating, Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a breathtaking retelling of the classic two-century-old novel; it's a horror movie that feels Shakespearian in just [...]