Is there a director more generous to his characters than Stephen Cone? Watching his films, one gets a sense that he doesn't use the medium simply to tell storie...
I know I'm in the critical minority when admitting my enjoyment of the Cars franchise, but I honestly do. It's not even that I am a "car guy" either—I've never ...
Much of what tantalizes about the seemingly straightforward drama Harmonium is what makes it so difficult to describe. It is nominally a domestic drama, centeri...
Focusing on a year in the life of three adult students -- Melissa, Greg and Shynika -- enrolled in Indianapolis’ Excel Center, a publicly-funded high school for...
It's taken five years for Lucky (Bari Kang) to save the money and find the footing — no matter how much illegal activity both pursuits warranted — necessary to ...
In 2003, the Oakland Police Department found themselves placed under federal oversight for charges of misconduct and civil rights abuses. Oakland PD’s deplorabl...
With a tip of the hat to Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin, and Jacques Demy, husband/wife team Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel’s Lost in Paris is a whimsical, almo...
The Book of Henry is notable only as a new addition to a canon of films that are bizarre in an extraordinarily specific way. These are the mainstream movies, th...
Though released nearly four decades ago, the impact of British director Alan Clarke’s stripped-down, visually matter-of-fact-yet-enrapturing "prison" drama Scum...
There is a moment in Aaron Katz’s Gemini when Jill LeBeau (Lola Kirke), who has become the prime suspect in a murder, needs to hide from the police and find a d...
