“This is this is the story of how my town, Salem, lost its motherfucking mind,” says Lily (Odessa Young) in the opening moments of Assassination Nation, a movie...
Not too long ago, it was looking like Rooney Mara would be starring in a pair of ambitious musicals; one from Leos Carax and another from Brady Corbet. Howe...
On her prom night, Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) gets caught making out with her high school girlfriend in the parking lot, resulting in her parents sending...
With its methodically tidy structure and a script that, beat for beat, lays the pieces to be a quintessential crowd-pleaser, Puzzle fits together like a perfect...
The recent surge of a particular brand of arthouse horror, favoring tension- and character-building over blood-fueled gonzo insanity, has found at a home in A24...
While many breakthrough directors achieve such a status by helming one feature, Josephine Decker achieved acclaim with two films, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and ...
Two men sit on a bench in the vast desert of the American west waiting for a stagecoach that’s nowhere to be found. One, a grizzled preacher (Robert Forster), i...
What does your life mean if the memories that have defined you are revealed to be false? What if the memories are tied to devastating trauma? For Jennifer Fox (...
The Oscar nominations for the 90th Academy Awards have been unveiled this morning with Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leading the pack with 13, fol...
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