Missing
Over the course of the 2010's, we've seen more and more films using social media and technology as a tool for storytelling. After the "found footage" craze sizzled out, we [...]
Women Talking
Since the #MeToo movement, many women have come forward to reveal unflattering details about the abuse they have endured and suffered from, which has been covered up for years by [...]
Alice, Darling
By channeling the tropes of psychological thrillers that are about romantic obsession, Mary Nighy's directorial debut Alice, Darling is gender-reversed like the 1996 iconic thriller Fear, but it ends up [...]
When You Finish Saving the World
When You Finish Saving the World is a familiar, offbeat Sundance family comedy-drama about family neuroses and mother-son dynamics from actor-turned filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg in his feature-length directorial debut. The [...]
The Pale Blue Eye
While their era of handing out massive blank checks may be coming to a close, Netflix is still dolling out hefty sums of cash for creatives when they're not cancelling [...]
Saint Omer
While the film holds all the striking realism of a documentary, the emotional depth displayed by French filmmaker Alice Diop bounces between a courtroom drama and a cinema verité chamber [...]
M3GAN
New Zealand genre director Gerard Johnstone (Housebound) teams up with producer James Wan and screenwriter Akela Cooper to give us the little sister movie to Malignant (2021). A tongue in cheek [...]
This Place Rules
Largely constructed in the form of his Channel 5 (formerly All Gas No Brakes) content, journalist turned documentary filmmaker Andrew Callaghan gives us his directorial debut with This Place Rules; a collection of footage [...]
Broker
Veteran Japanese filmmaker Hirokasu Kore-ada makes his second film in a row outside of his native homeland with Broker, an uneven but undeniably poignant crime drama, part road movie. After [...]
Babylon
A first-rate cast, high ambitions, and grandiose spectacle certainly prevent Babylon from being a complete trainwreck in Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle's latest feature. With extraordinary set-pieces and spectacular craftsmanship, plus superlative performances [...]