The title is the conceit. The ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail, has symbolized the cycle of destruction and creation, endlessness itself, since ancie...
Shireen Seno's sophomore feature Nervous Translation confirms her place as a unique voice in a national cinema that often gets ignored, or distilled to only a f...
Yui Kiyohara's sophomore feature and Tokyo University of the Arts thesis film Our House begins with an almost transgressive scene that contrasts the ambiance of...
There must be something really frightening in a 50-year-old woman deciding to give up her role as diligent housewife and mother, especially when it is the only ...
Over the last half century, Al Pacino has revealed himself to be – quite objectively – one of our greatest performers, both on stage and screen. Along with his ...
After a four-year hiatus from melodrama, Tyler Perry has returned with one of his most rousing pictures yet, Acrimony, which lands somewhere between Douglas Sir...
“It’s shitty how easy it is to get over someone dying," says Chris (James Adomian) as a part of a standup routine that gets personal when he starts talking abou...
After finishing up HBO's cult hit Vice Principals last year, Jody Hill returns to the big screen (or, rather, small, as it's headed to Netflix) with The Legacy ...
Sadaf Foroughi’s fulminating debut feature, Ava, may strike a few chords among Persepolis enthusiasts. A role-model schoolgirl turned rebel, its eponymous teena...
Ready Player One is an abomination of a novel, but it was never going to be that bad as a movie. If nothing else (and frankly, there may be nothing else), Steve...
