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...
The much-welcomed news of Metrograph's return could have been led by just one movie. A cornerstone of the repertory circuit with powers so intense it's seamles...
I'll thrown down a gauntlet: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi is having one of the single best years for any filmmaker, ever. You'll be forgiven for not noticing, since his t...
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.
