It is infrequent -- but not totally rare -- to come across a film where a singular, simple formal decision fully encapsulates the underlying ethos and intention...
After the apocalyptic implications following the cliffhanger of Avengers: Infinity War, one wonders where Marvel could go next. Small, of course. Ant-Man was th...
“I’m like everyone else,” writes about himself Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), the working class hero at the center of Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans’ Araby, “It...
The romantic comedy is dead. Long live the romantic comedy. There is a speed to the dialogue and action in Set It Up, directed by Claire Scanlon, that speaks to...
The history of film critics contributing to or creating actual films is long and storied. From the groundbreaking works of Cahiers du cinéma writers that made u...
A once-dormant entity is resurrected and vulgarly mutated to fit the irresponsible demands of an entire population in the name of capitalist greed–this is not o...
With a riveting central performance by Shirley Henderson as a woman dealing with advanced Parkinson's, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking Kathleen Hepburn's Ne...
The time has come to see the "manic pixie dream girl" trope from the other side. We've viewed countless depictions of attractively quirky women serving as plot ...
“The thing is that many sequels are cash grabs,” Brad Bird said earlier this year. “And there’s a saying in the business that I can’t stand where they go, ‘You ...
The premise of Gary Ross's Ocean's Eight need hardly be explained; the innovations of the film stem not from reversed gender perspectives–scarcely utilized in a...
