Luca Guadagnino does a lot of things very, very well. Indeed, it is hard to think of a working director more adept at capturing the tactile delights of stuff li...
Eyebrows were raised when the venerable contributors of Sight & Sound named Twin Peaks: The Return the second-best "film" of 2017 despite the fact that only...
As the Hindu folktale at the start of Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad's Tumbbad states: while the Goddess of Plenty birthed 160 million deities from her womb (...
Surprise may not be the first reaction you’d expect to have when watching the umpteenth remake of a romance as old as Hollywood itself, but the adjective proves...
There was a surprising moment about halfway through Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma–during one of its multitude of breathtaking cinematic set pieces–when I began to wonde...
The English royals populating Yorgos Lanthimos’ rollicking period drama The Favourite may not know much about the country’s ongoing war with France, but they’re...
One should suspect something’s off the second Domhnall Gleeson’s mustache appears. It’s the kind of too-long-and-groomed-not-to-be-suspicious facial hair that b...
“When you get a different vantage point, you get a new perspective,” says Ryan Gosling to a group of NASA officials recruiting astronauts early into Damien Chaz...
Tucked deep into Mariano Llinás’ monumental 14-hour, 3-part, 6-episode epic La Flor is a montage that only spans a few minutes. Introducing the film’s third and...
It is always a suspect decision to call a film “indescribable,” at least when assessing it as a whole. Certain aspects may and often do elude one’s ability to c...
