The front half of Coralie Fargeat's debut feature Revenge provides audiences the sort of sensory overload that hits like a sledgehammer. You might not think thi...
When the seemingly interminable (ahem) Terminal draws to close, it is hard to fight the feeling that there might not be a bigger cinematic misstep this year. An...
The narrative directorial debut of film scholar, curator, and documentary filmmaker Kent Jones elicits an awful lot of anticipation. Often, first features conta...
Arrested and charged with a felony assault simply for bruising the fragile ego of Waller County, Texas officer Brian Encinia, Sandra Bland would later end up de...
A few minutes into Donal Foreman’s The Image You Missed, a voice-over comes to an abrupt stop: “each film is a mission impossible, but this one here, it was the...
After loving their first collaboration (Juno) and disliking their second (Young Adult), I didn't know what to expect with director Jason Reitman and writer Diab...
Largely set in a hotel room on election night 2016, Onur Tukel’s The Misogynists is a nasty piece of business. Perhaps the director's most no holds barred pictu...
A quiet and observant sports drama, When She Runs, like The Fits, is a film that lives and breathes process. Our lead Kristen (Kirstin Anderson, also credited a...
Inspired by Andrew Solomon’s best-selling novel and perhaps a quote the begins Roger Ebert’s autobiography Life Itself (“…movies are like a machine that generat...
When director Camille Thoman calls the octogenarians at the center of her documentary The Longest Game charming, she's describing their initial, surface appeal....
