It's easy to forget a new David Cronenberg film premieres in, let's say, seven months, perhaps at a film festival, maybe one in the south of France. (Or four m...
Another week, another early Asghar Farhadi film gets restored and finally comes to North America. Following last week's release of his 2003 drama Dancing in th...
The Golden Shell winner at the San Sebastián––the Basque film festival’s top prize––went to home-grown filmmaker Jaione Camborda for this absorbing and sensual...
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi’s Nyad is aggressively bad. The kind of bad where you have to wonder how it passed through the eyes of two otherwise-c...
While the sheer power of Taylor Swift scared off a number of October releases to flee further into the year, this month still offers no shortage of heavy hitte...
It's always worthwhile noting John Woo has a new film coming out, even if it's been a second or so since one completely and totally lived up to his name. (Manh...
One of the best surprises in cinema this year was the news that Ryusuke Hamaguchi, just two years after his perfect one-two punch of Wheel of Fortune and Fanta...
One of the very best films of the year, Sofia Coppola's Priscilla is a pitch-perfect look at the darker side of Graceland, refiguring the legacy of Elvis (Jaco...
In the climactic moment of 45 Years, Andrew Haigh’s portrait of an elderly couple whose marriage cracks the week of a milestone anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Ra...
Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam uses familiar spaces as microcosms of society. After capturing her subjects in one setting, such as a mall in Chez Jolie Co...