The equally eclectic and fantastic cinema of Olivier Assayas makes picking favorites a fool's errand, but among many (yours truly included) there is a special ...
After unveiling the discs that will be arriving in April, including Bong Joon Ho's Memories of Murder, Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep, and more, Criterion has now a...
One of the greatest creative partnerships in modern filmmaking is continuing. After teaming for Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, and Certain Women, Kelly Reichar...
Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, the four-and-a-half-hour documentary on Boston’s City Hall, finds him embraced by the city he calls home (when not editing in ...
While playing a game of "mafia," Babak (Shahab Hosseini) and Neda (Niousha Noor) are tasked with figuring out who amongst them (it's an evening with friends ro...
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival, beginning Thursday, will look quite different. Forging ahead during the pandemic, they've to continue offering some of the yea...
"There is no theme. Film whatever you want, however you want, with whomever you want." This is the message that Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas sent to his favori...
When Simon Stone's The Dig begins with Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) towing his bicycle across the water in a boat towards Sutton Hoo, it's natural to align our ...
Noémie Merlant’s transcendent performance as a love-struck artist infatuated with her subject in Portrait of a Lady on Fire wowed critics and audiences alike, ...
What Happened Was... is a lost classic of many stripes—the single-set movie, the bad-first-date comedy, the '90s American indie, the multi-hyphenate passion pr...