Christopher Smith’s films have often been obsessed, in one way or another, with time. From the recursive looping of his breakout Triangle to the branching narr...
The only exterior shot Playland shows of the iconic Boston gay dive that lends the film its name is a black-and-white photograph slotted seconds before the end...
Returning to the director's chair for the first time in seven years, following 2016's Live by Night, Ben Affleck's latest feature is immersed in the world of s...
If 2022 was the year of self-reflexive explorations of harnessing cinematic tools to varying means––the likes of Steven Spielberg, James Gray, Alejandro Gonzál...
Slowly but surely the earlier work of Claire Denis is getting restorations and re-releases, from Beau Travail to L'intrus to No Fear No Die. While we hope Frid...
The trick to Sharper––a new con picture from director Benjamin Caron––is that it's deceivingly simple. Featuring multiple lead characters, many points of view,...
“I’m a new filmmaker,” Linh Tran tells me at one point, with an emphasis on the word new, when talking about Waiting for the Light to Change. Born in Vietnam, ...
“I use technology in order to hate it properly," pioneering video artist and self-identified cultural terrorist Nam June Paik says while explaining his playful...
Maryam Keshavarz's semi-autobiographical feature The Persian Version is an energetic family comedy chronicling three generations of Iranian women in the US. An...
This is the customary sentence noting it can be easy to take Hong Sangsoo for granted. The prolificacy of which should tell us he's as appreciated as ever, and...