Busan Review: Im Sang-soo’s Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is an Entertaining, If Formulaic Odd Couple Comedy

In summer 2020, faced with the unenviable choice between canceling and going virtual—which was never really an option, given its longstanding anti-streaming st...

Posterized October 2021: The French Dispatch, Titane, The Velvet Underground & More

Tony Soprano. Eddie Brock. James Bond. Edgar Wright. There are some big names coming to the big screen this month. If that's not an indication of Holly...

El Planeta Director Amalia Ulman on How Pre-Code Cinema and Social Media Influenced Her Directorial Debut

In 2014, maverick artist Amalia Ulman crafted an Instagram performance piece entitled “Excellences & Perfections” in which she performed the part of a made...

TIFF Review: The Starling is a Tired Drama and a Manipulative Misfire

When looking up the starling species of bird on Google, a few questions pop up. Why are starlings bad? Are starlings good for anything? Why are starlings a pro...

TIFF Review: Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty Hands Jake Gyllenhaal the Phone in Solid American Remake

Only three years ago, Danish director Gustav Möller made The Guilty, a single-room thriller focused on an operator attempting to save a kidnapped woman. Met wi...

Candyman Review: Nia DaCosta Re-Centers Clive Barker’s Horror Tale in Resonant, Terrifying Ways

Despite its earned cult-classic status, Bernard Rose's Candyman isn't without fault. His transposing Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden" from a British ...

Sparks on Annette, Polarizing Reactions, Leos Carax’s Vision, and Their Next Film

My years of Sparks evangelizing found a strange wellspring in 2021. What began with Edgar Wright's delightful, career-spanning The Sparks Brothers found its fu...

Demonic Review: Unimaginative Possession Thriller Doesn’t Play to Neill Blomkamp’s Strengths

Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi work finds its chief pleasures as a cinema of the hyperreal. Aliens, robots, and impossibly cool implements of destruction exist fiftee...

New to Streaming: The Sparks Brothers, Her Socialist Smile, The Witches of the Orient & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week's selections below and past r...

Cannes Review: Adèle Haenel Narrates a Damning Tale of Post-WWII French History in Returning to Reims

The MIT Press describes Didier Eribon's book Returning to Reims as "a memoir and meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locke...