Being queer—especially in this rapidly regressive age—means becoming acquainted with a base level of fear for most of your life. It is something you learn ...
Following up her reframed remake of Black Christmas, Sophia Takal’s Act One, is a polarizing work taking place in the shadows of Anytown, USA (though largely f...
How many times has the story of Robin Hood been told? How many books have been written, how many movies made about the outlaw? With The Death of Robin Hood, wr...
Here I’m Alive, Joshua Z. Weinstein’s follow-up to his 2017 breakout Menashe, is an intimate and claustrophobic mosaic of New York City life, a film that is bo...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Fantasia coverage. The film arrives on Netflix on June 12.
More than the similarly mythologiz...
In a political climate as antagonistic toward immigrants as any I can recall, deeply personal stories like Karla Murthy’s The Gas Station Attendant remind us o...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Tribeca coverage. The film arrives digitally and on Peacock on June 12.
Upon hearing the ...
One of the most powerful, important qualities of international film is its ability to slice through language and cultural boundaries to reveal what unites us. ...
Certain beliefs unite all of humanity. Take, for example, the idea that the extraordinary is possible. Or, even more, that the impossible is possible. Stev...
Family and belonging structure society to a mythical scale, their symbolic value readily plugged into ideologies categorizing the world into binaries—"us" and ...
