As 2025 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped through the cracks or simply gone unseen, so—as we do e...
Given her work in and around cinema, it’s no surprise that Stephanie LaCava would write a novel that is, no small feat, cinematic. Said novel is Nymph, a slim ...
So much of filmmaking and film-watching boils down to either lending your eyes to another or accepting that loan as a viewer––a process so quick, so immediate ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. Bugonia opens in theaters on October 24.
After dabbling in dystopian fantasy...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens in theaters on October 24.
The...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Fantasia coverage. Shelby Oaks opens in theaters on October 24.
There’s been a bit of mystery...
After directing not only the best debut of 2022, but the best film of that year, with the emotionally piercing, structurally captivating Aftersun, we've long a...
For all the glories that Romanian cinema has enjoyed in the last quarter-century, 2026 has the potential to outshine them all. If one man will be responsible f...
The characters in Kelly Reichardt’s films drift and wander. Her leads often work their way through the world, struggling against bad impulses and worse decisio...
The stories of Star Wars' creation are nearly (sometimes more) compelling than the films themselves––personal ambition, institutional politics, and empires (th...