Since the opening scene of Jaws, many blockbuster filmmakers have strived to riff on Steven Spielberg’s particular four-quadrant brand of graceful thrills and ...
Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) wasn't ever planning on coming back. Leaving wasn't his choice, but at a certain point the present replaces the past. Hearing that his b...
Reaffirming Angelina Jolie’s interest in efficient action storytelling, co-writer/director Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, adapted from Michael Koryt...
Perhaps the most clever idea in this prestigious throwback to potboilers of yore, The Woman in the Window, is how it upends the bourgeois escapism of most thri...
It seems strange to call a Zack Snyder movie nostalgic. Over the last decade the director has spent all his energy operating within the superhero industrial co...
A lot has changed in Saudi Arabia since Haifaa Al-Mansour last made a film in her home country. Wadjda, Al-Mansour’s 2012 debut, was the first feature shot ent...
In 2015, French journalist Anna Érelle published In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State’s Recruitment Networks. In order to investigate ISIS recruitme...
Single-location films can be considered something of a game between the creators and audience—beyond the way any bit of narrative could be considered a game be...
Home is profoundly where the heartache is in Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), a finely wrought, wistful but mildly unsatisfying debut feature by Nigerian-raised, N...
There's a reason young, mute Dylan Jacobs (Ezra Dewey) longs for a voice and it's not simply an ableist fantasy striving for some misguided ideal of "normalcy....
