Mary Poppins Returns can’t possibly be expected to transcend its historical foundation. It’s been over half a century since the Disney original seeped its way i...
A halo of unnatural, blue, and red neon-light envelops the snowy landscape around the Buddhist temple of Cheongpyeongsa. Wide awake in the dead of night–silent ...
For anyone still invested in big-budget Hollywood studio films that foreground original voices and singular visions, the glut of superhero movies represent some...
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a strange beast. It’s a dark re-imagining of the world from The Jungle Book, familiar to anyone that saw Jon Favreau's 2016 rebo...
A flock of dark, wavy hair covers Ángela’s luminous face as she stares at her father’s casket a few minutes into Rubén Mendoza’s heart-wrenchingly humane Niña E...
Who among us hasn’t watched a TV series and felt as if we had gotten to intimately know our favorite characters? Certain shows barely get the opportunity to “ju...
The Load is about a man and a van. We’re in Yugoslavia in 1999, where the rumble of NATO bombers can be heard in the distance. The man’s name is Vlada (Leon Luv...
One need not take a class on the cinema of Todd Solondz to suspect that there may not be a great deal of joyfulness in a film called Joy (unless, of course, som...
One of the biggest challenges when making a film about a fictitious artist must be coming up with art that doesn’t make audience members question the admiration...
Bodies twirl to maddening EDM tunes and wobble home at the break of dawn; nostrils are pierced, snort coke and puff smoke; mouths chew, bite, and meet in voraci...
