Essentially a lost film, legendary director Charles Burnett’s 1999 feature The Annihilation of Fish mostly lived on the festival circuit (and in bootlegs) for ...
Universal Language could easily have overdosed on twee. Set in an alternate-universe Winnipeg where almost everyone is ethnically Iranian and speaks Farsi, it ...
At the beginning of my review of The Village Detective: A Song Cycle, I wrote: “It is hard to overstate how important Bill Morrison’s work is to the language a...
Widely considered one of the most important and prolific film critics in America, Jonathan Rosenbaum began his career in the 1970s writing film criticism for S...
With only two features under his belt, British musician Daniel Blumberg has already cemented his name in film history. After debuting scoring abilities on 2020...
The British cinema––indeed an entire strand of understanding around modern drama––does not exist without Mike Leigh. When it was learned some years ago that Le...
Nickel Boys is the film of 2024. It’s expansive yet accessible. It’s violent yet pierced with seconds of warmth. It’s an adaptation that expands Colson Whitehe...
Adrien Brody is the magnificent center of Brady Corbet’s intimate-yet-sprawling epic The Brutalist, giving the performance of his career as László Tóth, who em...
With a sprawling 215 minutes and VistaVision footage, not to mention a variety of other formats––including 8mm, 16mm, Super 16mm, 35mm (two-perf, three–perf, f...
Perhaps no film this year represents more from a cinematographic standpoint than The Brutalist. A continents- and decades-spanning period piece shot on VistaVi...
