[Review] In a Valley of Violence
Since the start of the millennium, Ti West has been pigeonholed as a horror director, but even from the beginning, his interest in the genre moved far beyond c...
Michael Snydel
[Review] The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Osgood Perkins’ debut feature, The Blackcoat’s Daughter - originally known as February at its premiere at TIFF last year - is a stylish exercise in dread, teas...
[Review] Diary of a Chambermaid
About halfway through both Jean Renoir’s and Luis Buñuel’s interpretations of Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 class satire, A Diary of A Chambermaid, there’s a scene whe...
[Review] Pervert Park
There are few conversational taboos more likely to cause arguments than sex offenders. For some, the mere mention of their existence is enough to make blood bo...
‘Kaili Blues’ Director Bi Gan on Finding the Truth in Dreams and the Importance of Crying
I think of poetry and filmmaking differently. Poetry exists by itself, but cinema is something you share with others....
[Review] Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Originally released during a wave of enjoyable-but-disposable raunchy comedies, the first Neighbors was a trojan horse. Underneath a gleeful prank war arms rac...
[Review] Search Party
Scot Armstrong’s Search Party, which is packed to the gils with comedic talent -- most of whom, thankfully, have found work that’s more tailored to their abili...
[Review] Dark Horse
Like its namesake mutt, Dream Alliance, Dark Horse is an easy documentary to underestimate -- an archetypal underdog story of a working-class town coming toget...
[Review] Viktoria
Loosely based on a stranger than fiction story of a Bulgarian baby born without a belly button and umbilical cord, the expansive Viktoria is part-political alle...
[Review] Sworn Virgin
Laura Bispuri’s moving, fiery Sworn Virgin comes in a recent tradition of cinematic meditations on gender as a form of identity like Tomboy and All About My Mo...
