After his revelatory coming-of-age film Genesis, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage has expanded his canvas with Who by Fire, a lush, intimate, and psychologi...
With an evocative opening-credits sequence as the camera swirls through a virtual landscape of neon signs and lights, one might think they are witnessing the b...
With Sundance wrapped up, much of February's attention toward the world of cinema will be on Berlinale. This month certainly isn't stacked for new releases, bu...
Celebrating and condensing centuries of Black history that would take more than a few lifetimes for any scholar to thoroughly ascertain in totality, Kahlil...
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...
If the four-year gap between Frank Ocean's debut studio album Channel Orange and his follow-ups Endless and Blonde felt long, it's now been over double the wai...
Agnes’ (Eva Victor) life is defined by a sense of stagnancy. Four years after completing grad school in rural New England, she’s living in the same house a...
Premiering two years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, Elijah Bynum's Magazine Dreams was to be the start of a major year for Jonathan Majors, delivering a fe...
Ang Lee may be taking some time getting his next movie off the ground as his Bruce Lee biopic aims to finally start production this year, but first, one of his...
What would a feature-length director commentary look like when the film was never made? This is the slippery, fascinating conceit of Charlie Shackleton’s r...
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