After a pair of the decade's finest films with The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard returned this fall with Dark River. The story follows Alice (Ru...
One of the most entertaining films of the summer was Steven Soderbergh's return to the director's chair (at least on a cinematic level) with Logan Lucky, wh...
With a filmography of full-hearted movies with bold innovation when it comes to both their aesthetic touch and narrative ideas, one of Michael Powell and Em...
After getting on our radar with this tender 2013 character study Gloria, Chile's Sebastián Lelio followed it up with two features this year, A Fantastic Wom...
Ahead of their ceremony in 2018, the Film Independent Spirit Awards handed out this year's batch of nominations with Luca Guadagnino's quietly rapturous Cal...
The Theory of Everything and Man on Wire director James Marsh is once again looking back to history for his next film. In The Mercy, he's shipping Colin Fir...
If you can press pause on your umpteenth viewing of the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a new look at the 1950s-set fashion drama has arr...
Not only is Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut, one of the year's best films, it's also one the most successful. In under 250 theaters, it's a...
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