One of the more entertaining films I saw back at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival was the punk rock rom-com Dinner in America. Directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As filmmakers grapple with the pandemic and life during lockdown, few filmmakers have created a work as artfully expressive as The Tsugua Diaries, Maureen Faze...
Following Mediterranea and A Ciambra, writer-director Jonas Carpignano has completed his Calabrian trilogy with A Chiara, which picked up the Europa Cinem...
Around the release of Jimmy's Hall in 2014, Ken Loach announced his retirement, but thankfully it was short-lived as he returned with I, Daniel Blake, which we...
After two decades of working back in his native country of China, action master John Woo's return to Hollywood filmmaking has been solidified. He's currently s...
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