The year is 2307 and Earth is three centuries removed from climate change transforming its surface to glacial ice. Humanity has evolved to living underground, i...
When Tony Conrad passed away in April of 2016, I knew of him as an experimental filmmaker. It's hard to be an art student at the University at Buffalo — despite...
I know what Victoria Negri's debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It's about a young woma...
Has Mike Mills ever been unsympathetic to another human being? If his two most recent features, Beginners and this year's NYFF centerpiece selection, 20th Centu...
Humanity gave birth to inequality. The American experience is rooted in institutionalized racial inequity. Our forefathers came to this nation either by choice ...
Old Stone (Lao Shi) is a film wrapped around the gut-wrenching dilemma of a man who knows a moral choice but struggles to find the fortitude to carry through wi...
See enough by any director and you'll start thinking you've got a grip on the enterprise. See everything they've directed -- "everything" here constitutes 17 fe...
There's a moment somewhere in the middle of The Girl on the Train, adapted from the hit Paula Hawkins novel, in which Detective Riley (Allison Janney) lays out ...
Sophie Goodhart’s charming, low-key debut My Blind Brother is a deceptively emotional experience. It’s the story of a love triangle between a deluded megalomani...
Among the cacophonous election coverage and myriad issues sweeping our country, the gargantuan cost of higher education emerges as a (still) rising concern. Wit...
