Saint Frances Review: A Warm-Hearted Look at the Awkwardness of Adulthood

Saint Frances is a warm-hearted indie comedy that captures the awkwardness of adulthood with real precision. Every one of these awkward moments–and there many–...

Blood on Her Name Review: An Accidental Killing Leads to a Convoluted Thriller

A lot happens during the course of director Matthew Pope and co-writer Don M. Thompson's Blood on Her Name … too much. This can prove problematic for what star...

Berlin Review: With Undine, Christian Petzold Crafts a Pseudo-Supernatural Melodrama

Following up a successful work of lucid experimentation like Transit can be a tricky undertaking: does one lean back toward the basics or further up the ante? ...

Locarno in Los Angeles Review: Ham on Rye Brings a Surrealist Touch to the Coming-of-Age Film

It’s fair to say that one of the most common genres dominating the American independent film realm is the coming-of-age film. From present-set, relentlessly up...

Berlin Review: Goddess of the Fireflies Brings 1990s Adolescent Energy to Life

Die-hard grunge fan (and drug dealer) Fred (Noah Parker) tells Catherine (Kelly Depeault) she can't play her Hole CD because Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain. ...

Berlin Review: Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog is Boldly Uncompromising Look at Aristocratic Life

In Malmkrog, a group of Russian aristocrats gather in a grand rural estate to wax philosophical during a long and luxurious dinner party. The film offers seemi...

Berlin Review: Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Finds Jia Zhangke Returning to the Waves of Time

Of all the monumental parts that tend to constitute the films of Jia Zhangke–the shifting socio-economic landscapes; the departing mountains; Zhao Tao–none has...

Bad Education Trailer: Hugh Jackman Gets Caught in a School Scandal

In the early 2000s, an $11 million-dollar embezzlement high school scandal rocked the Long Island community of Roslyn. It's now getting the feature film treatm...

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on Young Ahmed, Arabic Teachings, and Taking Religion Seriously

It may have taken nearly 25 years, but the typically admired Dardenne brothers have turned controversial and divisive--which, history tells us, is a common con...

Song Kang-ho Sets First Post-Parasite Project: Emergency Declaration With Jeon Do-yeon & Lee Byung-hun

Donald Trump may not be able to overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, but the post-Oscars ride of Parasite is continuing full steam ahead. Despite t...