It's a story deserving its own film: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani's Chess of the Wind had three public screenings, likely recognized as the remarkabl...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is certainly one of the greatest festival winners in recent years—a designation I don't assign just (just) because of the name. ...
October's here and it's time to get spooked. After last year's superb "'70s Horror" lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: "U...
At long last, Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta is touching down stateside this weekend with a North American premiere at the 59th New York Film Festival. Ahead of th...
A Kristen Stewart-led Princess Diana don't-call-it-a-biopic-because-it's-only-set-in-a-small-period-of-time-we-obviously-mustn't-take-as-an-encapsulation-of-he...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's filmography is a dream—deep, dense, an alternation of consistent through lines and true surprises. Basically just decades of work from one o...
If Isle of Dogs suggested Wes Anderson needs a break from animation, here's something to argue the medium's best used short-term. To hype his long-delayed The ...
You have until midnight to watch a new film by David Cronenberg. Crimes of the Future is still, give or take, a year out, but for the next (as of this writing)...
For years I've been haunted by Arrebato, though my memory of it is hardly concrete. I saw Iván Zulueta's cult masterpiece on a battered print at Anthology Film...
Four years on from The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro has returned with—to these eyes—his most enticing project yet: Nightmare Alley, an adaptation of Will...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
