Following in a wave of cerebral psychological horror films such as The Witch, It Follows, and The Babadook, Anita Rocha da Silveira’s debut Kill Me Please is th...
At its heart, Bi Gan's Kaili Blues is a meditation on the struggle between traditionalism and modernism. Through the story of one man’s journey through Chinese ...
I Promise You Anarchy, by writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón, titillates equally with its queer sensuality and noirish crime, neither of which is entirely t...
From Sophie's Choice to My Sister’s Keeper, child loss has been the subject of everything from prestige Oscar pictures to YA drivel. It’s an understandable foc...
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options -- not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves -- we've taken it upon ourselves to ...
What do you get when you combine uninventive found footage, a location chosen specifically for its cheap production costs, and CGI the likes of which has not be...
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory...
Most writing on Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci's April and the Extraordinary World speaks as though they've adapted one of revered Frenchman Jacques Tardi...
Who isn't self-centered? If you find someone, please let me know, because I don't think that person exists. Even when we are at our most compassionate, empathet...
There’s one point late in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 that stands out -- nay, is almost stunning -- for actually being underplayed. Ian (John Corbett), in the mi...