Film Reviews & Insights
The Crow (2024)
The year was 1994; Kurt Cobain is dead. OJ is on trial and star Brandon Lee, son of legend Bruce Lee, has died on the set of his soon-to-be-iconic role [...]
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver's Between the Temples is one of those unique films that feels like it's made in the 1970s. It is very much a modern take on Harold and Maude, [...]
Skincare
Skincare, the new film from director Austin Peters, starring Elizabeth Banks as an LA aesthetician named Hope Goldman, is inspired by real events (the case of a woman named Dawn [...]
Didi
Certainly, an impressive debut feature, Sean Wang's Sundance darling Didi echoes other recent coming-of-age stories like Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret and Mid90s, which are nostalgic pieces about [...]
The Dead Don’t Hurt
The Dead Don’t Hurt, the second film directed by Viggo Mortensen, who also produced, wrote, composed the score for and also stars in, is a peculiar western. It is both [...]
National Anthem
What could have been an opportunist film filled with queer archetypes and gazes, Luke Gifford's National Anthem instead is a visually poetic, sensually designed, and liberating adventure about the power [...]
Last Summer
Last Summer, the new film from Catherine Breilat, is based on the 2019 Danish film, Queen of Hearts. The result is a film that takes what Brielat is known for and [...]
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland, the famed Polish director who is perhaps her nation’s best currently active filmmaker, has created both a film and a polemic, with her newest effort, Green Border. This brutally [...]
MaXXXine
Typically, the third film in a trilogy is given the most difficult task. Having to conclude the overarching story told over the previous two films is no easy task, and [...]
Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos's surrealist, wickedly funny horror/dark comedy Kinds of Kindness may be more in line with his earlier Greek films, but its otherworldly tone and rich style, with themes that [...]
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley is the fourth film in the franchise. At times, it certainly feels like a fourth entry, but mostly it avoids the complete mess most extended [...]