15 Films to See in March

With the elongated awards season behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the 2019 cinematic offerings and this month is a doozy....

Sundance Review: ‘Ms. Purple’ Explores Sibling Love Vividly, Deeply

In Los Angeles, a brother and sister are brought back together as their father slips away. Such is the crux of Ms. Purple, the sophomore feature from writer/dir...

The Best Films of Sundance Film Festival 2019

With over 50 films viewed and more coverage coming from the Sundance Film Festival, it's time to wrap up the first major cinema event in 2019....

New to Streaming: ‘Burning,’ ‘Velvet Buzzsaw,’ ‘Piercing,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of Netflix, Amazon, MUBI, and more....

Sundance Review: Armie Hammer Freaks Out in ‘Wounds’

If one wants to watch a sweaty, disturbed Armie Hammer wander around New Orleans as he’s haunted by a malevolent spiritual force, Wounds satisfies on those plea...

Rotterdam Review: ‘Beats’ is a Techno-Fueled, Nostalgic Ode to Adolescence

What exactly are Johnno and Spanner? There are moments when the two Scottish teens hate each other’s guts with bilious fervor, others when they’re the...

Sundance Review: ‘Light From Light’ is an Enlightening Ghost Story Rich with Humanity

If the jump scares and horror set pieces of Paranormal Activity or The Conjuring franchises were exchanged for an authentic reckoning of the tangled emotions th...

Sundance Review: ‘Monos’ is a Brutal, Unflinching Immersion into the Guerrilla Warfare of Latin America

There’s a preternatural feel to the opening sequences of Monos, the brutal, unflinching third film from Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes (Cocaler...

Sundance Review: ‘Dirty God’ Shows the Aftermath of a Nightmare

How do you cope after an attack that leaves you visibly scarred for the rest of your life? This is the difficult question that director Sacha Polak looks to del...

U.S. Trailer for Hu Bo’s Four-Hour Epic ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’

Premiering nearly a year ago at the Berlin International Film Festival, I caught up with An Elephant Sitting Still at New Directors/New Films and hoped this...