After the release of the brilliant The Wind Rises in 2013, legendary director Hayao Miyazaki announced that he was retiring from work on feature-length films. After a 30-plus year career filled with [...]

The transition from childhood into the teenage years can be among the most turbulent years of a person’s life. Thoughts, actions, and relationships change, and kids often feel alone during [...]

Mostly a film about performance and partly about identity, Todd Hayes's May December is quite a fascinating film on many levels. An artful, rangy, and engrossing psychological drama that merges [...]

A deeply humane and fully sustained absorption in loneliness, grief, world history, and philosophy, along with frequent quarrels between a history instructor and a small group of New England boarding [...]

Melancholic, poetic, and deeply empathetic, Sofia Coppola's biopic Priscilla follows Priscilla Presley and her relationship, marriage, and breakup with Elvis Presley. The film is a compelling, stylish portrait of a [...]

Martin Scorsese's contemplative and high-minded American epic Western crime drama is based on the 2017 non-fiction novel of the same title by David Grann. Killers of the Flower Moon arrives [...]

To say that Juliet Triet's courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall is riveting and worthy of all its praise on the festival circuit would be something of an understatement. This [...]

Cloning is a topic that filmmakers have been fascinated with for years. While the roots of the topic are in science-fiction such as Moon or Swan Song, it has found a place in [...]

From David Lean's Brief Encounter to Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, and Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy, there have been a substantial number [...]

After exploring the horrors of the final days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era where women's reproductive rights were stripped away in his 2007 masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 [...]