Cannes Review: The Employer and the Employee Examines a Transactional Relationship with Tension

All relationships are to some extent transactional, but none more than that between employer and employee. One provides capital, the other labor. This dynamic ...

Films by Johnnie To, Gina Prince-Bythewood & More Join The Criterion Collection This September

Kicking off the fall with a bang, The Criterion Collection has unveiled quite a September lineup. Johnnie To will finally be joining the collection with his 20...

Bad Tales Review: A Grotesque Italian Fresco of Suburban Teenhood

Amid the litany of horrors the biting little film Bad Tales presents, there might be a pinnacle: reading out your middle-school report card to a dining table o...

ND/NF Review: All the Light We Can See is a Radical and Rhapsodic Mexican Odyssey

“Perhaps what is needed now is a cinema that is no longer Latin but something else,” said the Mexican director Pablo Escoto Luna in an interview for his short ...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: David Cronenberg, Tobe Hooper, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Monte Hellman & More

Filmmaking-related books released in the last few months cover a head-spinningly vast collection of topics and directors. Our latest swim in the literary water...

Tribeca Film Festival 2021 Lineup Unveiled

Pushed back from its usual April slot, the Tribeca Film Festival will take place in June this year (specifically 9th through 20th) at venues across all five Ne...

Scott Shepherd, Pat Healy & More Join Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

With Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon finally getting underway, the director continues to expand the cast of his David Grann adaptation. After quit...

The Power Review: A Richly Atmospheric Haunted Hospital Creeper

The Power, Corinna Faith’s haunted hospital creeper, hinges on such a richly atmospheric historical context that it’s a wonder it hasn’t been used as the backd...

SXSW Review: Recovery Takes an Uneven Road Trip Through the Awkwardness of Early Pandemic Days

Several years ago, South Park asked the question: at what point is it acceptable to make a joke about a tragedy? The answer within that universe was 20 years. ...

SXSW Review: Ludi Finds a Haitian Immigrant Searching for the American Dream in the Shadow of MAGA Land

Arriving on the festival circuit just as a group of Ivy League-educated millionaires in Congress punted on raising the minimum wage, Edson Jean’s Ludi is an of...