High school can be hell. Between peer pressures and hormones, it's a hotbed for drama, and it's no wonder films about teenagers remain ripe for the big screen. ...
It’s difficult to not be impressed by Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman in some form or other. It’s placed in a paradoxical position. In the wake of Bohemian Rhapsody...
Ken Loach’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake is a masterful indictment of the strain of out-of-control capitalism that has dug its heels into...
Even more than his studio-dominating, awards-securing, and fiercely independent (or so the canonized story goes) New Hollywood contemporaries, it could be...
Héloïse bursts into the frame with her shoulders to the camera. She wears a long dress; it billows gently as she walks outside her house in 18th century Brittan...
When it comes to cinema, the tragic situation in Palestine typically inspires grim documentaries or realist tales of hardship and war. Elia Suleiman has always ...
Professional football (or soccer, if it pleases) has never really lent its wonders to the big screen. Lacking the glitz of North America's more popular team spo...
Cannes’s competition slate closes with Sibyl, an alluring but ultimately throwaway erotic thriller, an arthouse-inflected French potboiler starring Virginie Efi...
Basements are a recurring motif in the cinema of Bong Joon-ho. From the tunnels running below the apartment building of Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), to the t...
Brutal and bludgeoning, David Yarovesky's Brightburn is a film designed to knock the breath from your chest and subvert expectations. An alien infant crash-land...
