Borrowing heavily from Hardcore Henry, David Cronenberg, John Wick, and '80s B-movies, Upgrade is the kind of picture where story takes a back seat to the thril...
Everything is and isn't as it seems with Michael Pearce's genre-fluid romantic thriller Beast. What starts with the template of rich girl falling for local bad ...
Soviet secret police began a series of mass executions circa 1940 of Polish citizens they knew would reject foreign occupation upon WWII's completion. Some of t...
At what point do vaguely-related surface movements form into something resembling a wave? The idea of a so-called “Berlin School” has been doing the rounds for ...
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to...
I’d be curious to see how Solo plays out to the casual observer. Ron Howard’s sci-fi jaunt is rife with “Oh look!” moments that track for anyone in the know (wh...
I wish there was a way I could start this review of Carla Simón’s extraordinary Summer 1993 with its final scene. Not because there are eye-opening or plot-unra...
One of the most successful things in Amateur, written and directed by Ryan Koo, is the casting of Michael Rainey Jr. as the lead, a young basketball star on the...
There's nothing like some yokel conversation to introduce a film's environment while also foreshadowing the ensuing plot. It's easy to dismiss the aging gas sta...
Last week we saw a film from Pawel Pawlikowski that crossed continents and spanned decades and lasted a mere 84 minutes. With the exception of a devastating cli...
