Shortcomings
First and foremost, Shortcomings is a tour de force of one man's hypocrisy and dramatic irony. Asian-American filmmaker Randall Park makes his feature directorial debut chronicling the frustrating life of [...]
Dreamin’ Wild
Hollywood loves a biopic. And within that greater subgenre, an area of deep focus is the music biopic. From 1909’s Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to last year’s Elvis, filmmakers [...]
Earth Mama
Another immersion in the exploration of systematic oppression for Black cinema, Earth Mama is a deeply artful portrait of a young pregnant woman's resilience against the foster care system. Through [...]
Barbie
Barbie is a fantasy comedy based on Mattel's fashion dolls that I can't see all families and young children enjoying. The welding of satire on consumerism, materialism, and capitalism into [...]
Amanda
A quirky and oddly charming coming-of-age story about a young Italian woman in her early 20s struggling with loneliness and borderline personality disorder within her wealthy upbringing and the expectations [...]
Afire
Narrowing his focus info a more intimate and personal style of filmmaking, acclaimed filmmaker Christian Petzold has altered his Hitchcockian style and dystopian tone to a more meta-approach, but arguably [...]
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Rarely do documentaries make one feel like their grade school education left out a lot of crucial details about their country's history; Lakota Nation vs. United States does just that. [...]
Nimona
Nimona, the swan song of the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios, the animation company behind the Ice Age franchise, Rio, Epic, and other films, recently snuck into the shuffle of Netflix's [...]
Insidious: The Red Door
The first Insidious was a major sleeper hit back in 2011. Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell launched themselves to stardom with the first Saw film, but the filmmakers [...]
Joy Ride
Taking a page or two from Girls Trip and The Hangover, writer-producer Adele Lim, who was a co-writer on the script for Crazy Rich Asians, makes her feature film directing [...]