The Worst Ones Review: French Filmmaking Satire Questions its Own Approach to Casting
Winner of the Un Certain Regard at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret’s The Worst Ones arrives in the U.S. with a certain amount of...
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MUBI Unveils April 2023 Lineup
MUBI has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including David Easteal's The Plains (one of the best films we saw on the festival circuit...
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on Tori and Lokita, Moral Indignation, and Cannabis Farms
To cinéastes fixated on tabulating statistics like sports fanatics, the Dardennes often come up as examples of unerring consistency, like a player with an impe...
Thessaloniki Review: Orlando, My Political Biography Poetically Reframes Virginia Woolf’s Classic Text
A century from publication, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography is still in vogue. Just before the pandemic, Tilda Swinton––who played Orlando in Sally Potte...
SXSW Review: Caterpillar is a Genre-Defying Tale About the Quest for Beauty
Categorized as a documentary by the filmmakers and programmers of SXSW, Liza Mandelup’s Caterpillar has a lucid structure that feels like a loose, improvised s...
Watch: Jean-Luc Godard Directed a Nike Commercial in 1991 Centered on Death
As rumors swirl of Jean-Luc Godard's final posthumous film eying a Cannes premiere along with the recent premiere of Ben Affleck's Nike drama AIR, it's only fi...
Exclusive Trailer for Oleh Sentsov’s Venice Hit Rhino: Ukrainian Godfather Enters a Criminal Underworld
While we've been receiving vital cinematic dispatches from the frontlines of Ukraine's ongoing battle against Russia, this week another look at the country's h...
U.S. Trailer for Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Selection R.M.N. Brings Chills and Portent
The wait for a new Cristian Mungiu feature sure isn't short––between 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days he's averaging about one every five years––but nobody, as sc...
Finnish Classic Eight Deadly Shots Receives Restoration Trailer Ahead of Janus Release
In an especially appreciated instance of ask-and-you-shall-receive (and plainly great day for enthusiasts of five-hour Finnish cinema) the World Cinema Project...
John Wick: Chapter 4 Review: A Grandiose Action Epic Executed with Brutal Efficiency
There is a go-for-broke, frenzied aura upon John Wick: Chapter 4. Even for a franchise so heavily steeped in bullets and body count, this outing finds a way to...