Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
It’s hard to overstate just how much of a phenomenon Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther was. A sea-changing moment in Hollywood for representation in film and a billion-dollar grossing blockbuster that [...]
Descendant
As the winners write the history books, so much history is left whitewashed, and some communities and individuals only have stories left that are passed on from our descendants. Not [...]
Causeway
Two isolated soul's cross paths and form an undeniable bond in Causeway, a superbly acted and exquisitely crafted character study that has a story that is all too familiar in [...]
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
At first, this "biopic" on Weird Al Yankovic starts by hitting all the beats and formulas of the Hollywood biopic genre, before co-writer and director Eric Appel and co-writer/producer "Weird [...]
The Wonder
Spirituality collides with science in Sebastian Lelio's latest period film, titled The Wonder. While suffocated with implausible detours and anchored by its elegant craftsmanship, The Wonder casts an irresistible spell [...]
On the Line
At first glance, radio doesn’t seem to be the most dynamic world to base a film in. It’s a world of stationary voices, with images filled in by the listener’s [...]
Armageddon Time
Absorbing and poignant, casually didactic and deeply personal, James Gray's Armageddon Time ends up being as engaging as it is uneven and glum. A fictionalized look at the filmmaker's childhood [...]
The Banshees of Inisherin
In a return to his roots, renowned British-Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh does wonders in The Banshees of Inisherin. Marking his first film in the U.K. with an original [...]
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Edward Berger’s anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front is a realistically graphic and riveting film based on the 1929 book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. [...]
Holy Spider
Modern Iran's worst serial killer, Saeed Hanaei, and the 16 female victims he lured into his home are chronicled in Iranian-born filmmaker Ali Abbasi's third feature, titled Holy Spider. The [...]