A Family is at a Crossroads in Exclusive Trailer for Michael Glover Smith’s Relative
One of the rising filmmakers in the Chicago movie-making scene, Michael Glover Smith (Rendezvous in Chicago, Mercury in Retrograde) has returned this year with...
Year: 2022
Shepherd Review: Psychological Horror Stuck in Stasis
The incongruities abound at the start of Russell Owen's Shepherd to put us in a state of unease the moment we discover Eric Black's (Tom Hughes) wife Rachel (G...
Exclusive: Unifrance Critics Lab to Launch at Cannes 2022
With the 2022 Cannes Film Festival just a few weeks away, we're delighted to exclusively announce the “Unifrance Critics Lab,” a new initiative by Unifrance de...
U.S. Trailer for Neptune Frost Unveils an Afrofuturist World of Wonder
Following a major festival tour that included Cannes, TIFF, NYFF, BFI London, and Sundance, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Neptune Frost is finally arrivin...
Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Michael Cimino, Dennis Hopper & More
Our latest roundup of recommended reads related to film and pop culture is full of wonderfully outsized personalities like Nicolas Cage, Michael Cimino, and De...
Martin Scorsese’s 11 Favorite Films of the 1990s
Martin Scorsese has never had a decade's slump since breaking out in the 1970s, but the 1990s were an especially fruitful time. From his mob masterpieces Goodf...
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Review: Sam Raimi Attempts to Overtake a Soulless Corporate Product
If existence is indeed a rat’s nest of narratives playing out in mood-swinging incoherence across universes, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may be...
Marion Cotillard & Melvil Poupaud are Brother and Sister in First Trailer for Arnaud Desplechin’s Cannes Drama
It was just yesterday I remarked how Arnaud Desplechin's recent work has been severely overlooked here in America, naming his riveting Philip Roth adaption Dec...
13 Films to See in May
While our recently published summer movie preview was a fairly comprehensive look at what we're most anticipating over the next few months, some surprises stil...
ND/NF Review: The African Desperate is a Boisterous Portrait of Academia, Artistry, and Aimlessness
Early into Martine Syms’ The African Desperate, MFA finalist Palace (Diamond Stingily) sits for her last exam in an upstate New York art school tucked deep in ...