Film Reviews & Insights
Arco
Arco is an at times delirious science fiction animated film from France. There are echoes of Valerian, and of the works of Studio Ghibli. Concerning the misadventure of a ten [...]
A Little Prayer
A Little Prayer is one of those films that comes along all too rarely. Writer and director Angus MacLachlan, who wrote the screenplay for Junebug, has fashioned a simple yet [...]
The Plague
Very much in the vein of William Golding's Lord of the Flies novel, Charlie Polinger's debut feature that premiered at the Un Certain Regard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival [...]
Splitsville
Splitsville is a film about two couples in comedic, dramatic and all too real emotional peril, with performances and situations that will feel both fresh and familiar. It is, at times, [...]
Song Sung Blue
Director Craig Brewer has been a relatively overlooked filmmaker in the time since his debut film Hustle and Flow emerged to commercial and critical acclaim back in 2005. Despite somewhat [...]
Cover-Up
Seymour Hersh is one of the preeminent investigative journalists of the last seventy-five years, with a legacy stretching from the War in Vietnam to the present day. In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras [...]
Father Mother Sister Brother
Like his previous films (Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Night on Earth), Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, is separated by vignettes rather than a traditional narrative, [...]
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook's follow-up to his highly acclaimed Decision to Leave in 2022 and The Handmaiden in 2016 has now crafted the film of his career with No Other Choice. This [...]
Resurrection
Resurrection is only the third film in 10 years by Bi Gan, who is up there with Jia Zhangke and Zhang Ziyi, who are perhaps the most visually mesmerizing, poetic, [...]
Orwell: 2+2=5
George Orwell is one of the most complex figures of the modern world. Philosopher and author, his influence is such that his name has become an invocation of a certain [...]
The Housemaid
Due to its content and source material, Paul Feig's domestic psychological thriller film The Housemaid asks a lot from the viewer in terms of plausibility, perception, and plot turns in [...]