Sentimental and manipulative would be the inevitable criticism of Tótem if writer-director Lila Avilés second dramatic feature were a Hollywood studio-driven movie. Luckily, it isn't, though the set-up has all the [...]

Films about colonialism and settlers overtaking Western land are often in Western movies, and they most often come up with white protagonists who side with the oppressed Indigenous people, and [...]

There has always been a lot of passion and perspective for filmmaker Ava DuVernay; there is no denying that she has always crafted films about essential issues that tie our [...]

Four Daughters is promptly proving how layered and experimental documentaries can be. Documentarian Kouther Ben Hania's latest docu-fiction merges documentary with reenactments in this engrossing story about femininity and family [...]

The true story of the survivors of the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash over the Andes mountains has been translated into film before, most notably in the 1993 Ethan Hawke starring [...]

With some sharp writing, timely social commentary, and a wrenching performance by German actress Leonie Benesch, there are many reasons to embrace The Teachers' Lounge, a debut feature by İlker [...]

Ferrari is a very flawed but stylish film that eventually becomes more satisfying as it carries on. It's one of those uneven films that ends up scaping by with many [...]

There is often a certain melancholy to ghost movies—even when they are at their most terrifying, they often rely on themes of past trauma, grief, and other forms of reconciliation. [...]