Canadian director Ashley McKenzie’s two features pivot around people caught up in traps. She’s a regional filmmaker, making work based in the communities of No...
It’s often said that the sign of a true craftsman is the ability to make complex tasks look effortless (there’s even an Italian phrase for this skill, “sprezza...
An intimate story of friendship projected across the vast alpine Italian landscape, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's The Eight Mountains is a...
There's a tender empathy emanating from every frame of Rebecca Zlotowski's latest feature Other People's Children. The French director's latest work stars Virg...
Twenty-three years into this new millennium, the war film genre feels at once antiquated and freshly-evolving. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant plays like a bridge b...
Among the strange cast of characters Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) meets on his nightmarish journey through the mind of Ari Aster, perhaps the most memorable is Natha...
Argentinian writer-director Laura Citarella, part of the film collective El Pampero Cine responsible for such monumental work as La Flor, presented her third f...
Sick of Myself, the sickly comedy from Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, begins with a measure of artistic innocence. Two struggling artists steal a bott...
With only two feature films, German director Helena Wittmann has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in international cinema. Her 2017 de...
Friends meet at a restaurant for a birthday dinner in the opening scenes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Passion. Everyone loves the wrong person. Tomoya (Ryuta Okamoto...
