If we want to start with the problems of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth, we can look at the title. When it’s revealed at the beginning that the title comes from ...
In Kifaru, several workers at a conservancy in Kenya wonder how they can find hope within a hopeless situation. Their job is to take care of Sudan, a 45-year-ol...
For most of its runtime, This Teacher plays things close to the chest. In its tale of a vacation gone bad, director/co-writer Mark Jackson flirts with different...
The story of Sergei Dovlatov is the kind of tale we’ve heard before. A writer who grew up in the USSR, Dovlatov fled his home country in 1979 after failing to a...
Charlie Birns’ Human Affairs is a film about the desire for human connection within a story about surrogacy, a situation that’s intimate by nature but requires ...
Midway through Angelica, a medium (played by a hammy, bug-eyed Janet McTeer) talks to Constance (Jena Malone) about the ghostly apparition plaguing her and her ...
S. Craig Zahler is the kind of genre filmmaker who’s making films unlike anyone else in his field today. His 2015 debut Bone Tomahawk pulled together an impress...
Something must have happened to John Woo in the last decade or so. It’s been well over a decade since his last full-blown, modern-day action film, having made t...
