Anora
Sean Baker's Anora carries on his neo-realist portraits of sex workers in crisis, and it's one of his funniest, saddest, and most dramatically satisfying films yet. It plays out like [...]
Sean Baker's Anora carries on his neo-realist portraits of sex workers in crisis, and it's one of his funniest, saddest, and most dramatically satisfying films yet. It plays out like [...]
Thelma, the new film from director Josh Margolin, is a rumination on what it means to have aged, and the comedy-as well as the sorrow-found within that experience.
In the nine years since its release, Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller's return to his iconic post-apocalyptic Wasteland, has become this titan of the film world. A film plagued [...]
Renowned Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers his most enigmatic film yet with Evil Does Not Exist, a masterful study of corporate greed presented in a rural Japanese village. Immaculately shot [...]
Luca Guadagnino pivots away from horror films back to romantic dramas that brought him such great notoriety in his earlier work, depicting characters experiencing forbidden love and desire in isolated, [...]
The Old Oak, the latest, and possibly the final film, from legendary director Ken Loach, is as vital, stirring, somber, and clear eyed as the rest of his work. Concentrating [...]
Both art-house and high-minded sci-fi aficionados will find common ground for watching the thought-provoking and ambitious The Beast. French actress Léa Seydoux continues to prove she's an actress of great [...]
Nearly 20 years after the Romania New Wave took international cinema by storm with such titles as The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, and [...]
Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan continues his grandiose creative momentum with his latest art-house dramatic epic, About Dry Grasses. With his 2014 Palme d'Or winner Winter Sleep (which made my [...]
Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos's adoration for surrealist aesthetics and edgy material is apparent once again in Poor Things, this time showing a fascination for silent movie aesthetics and highly stylized [...]