Premiering at last year's Tribeca Festival where it picked up Best Screenplay and Best Performance, Shelly Yo's directorial debut Smoking Tigers is a nuanced c...
In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fictio...
Likely the world doesn't have enough neon-tinged, French-Belgian neo-noirs, making welcome the arrival of The Other Laurens. Claude Schmitz's 2023 Directors' F...
One of the best films I saw at TIFF last year is finally getting a release nearly a year after its premiere. Netflix picked up Azazel Jacob's deeply moving dra...
A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) esteems maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Sômai, but it’s the nature of such fandom tha...
White Reindeer and Little Sister director Zach Clark returned to the festival circuit last year with The Becomers, a sci-fi tale narrated by none other than Sp...
Understanding and appreciation of Claire Denis has long faced the vacancy of No Fear, No Die, her 1992 feature pitting Alex Descas and Isaach de Bankolé in the...
Winner of both the Audience Award and in its U.S. Documentary section and the overall Festival Favorite Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Nata...
One of our favorites upon its Tribeca Festival debut last year, Monica Sorelle's feature debut Mountains went on to be selected for TIFF and AFI Fest, and secu...
A favorite at the Locarno Film Festival last summer, Laura Luchetti's pre-WWII coming-of-age drama The Beautiful Summer will now be arriving in the ideal seaso...
