Islands Review: Sam Riley-Led Neo Noir Plays It Too Safe

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. Islands opens in theaters on January 30. Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed...

The Chronology of Water Review: Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The Chronology of Water opens on January 9. Book adaptations yield two k...

Holding Liat Review: The Story of One Family Through a Mosaic of Political Views

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Tribeca coverage. Holding Liat opens in theaters on January 9. The first words we hear in Bra...

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. Cover-Up opens in theaters on December 19 and arrives on Netflix on December 26...

BFI London Review: Kevin B. Lee’s Debut Feature Afterlives Interrogates Terrorist Propaganda

So much of filmmaking and film-watching boils down to either lending your eyes to another or accepting that loan as a viewer––a process so quick, so immediate ...

Frankenstein Review: Guillermo del Toro Crafts an Intricate World and Rhythmically Off-Kilter Adaptation

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. Frankenstein opens in theaters on October 17 and arrives on Netflix on November...

The Hyperboreans Review: Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s Warning Against Political Amnesia

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. The Hyperboreans is now streaming on Film Movement+. “We humans are capable ...

Happyend Review: Neo Sora Poignantly Explores our Responses to an Impending Future

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Happyend opens in theaters on September 12. “Something big is about to chang...

Venice Review: Marc by Sofia is an Agreeable Documentary Portrait Lacking Intimacy

Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs, and 30 years of friendship between them––this triad was promising enough for A24 to jump on the project and for the Venice Film Fes...

Venice Review: The Last Viking is an Ode to Oddballs, Mads Mikkelsen, and the Beatles

“The world is full of people,” states the anonymous narrator of Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking as an opening, hand-drawn animation tells a rather distu...