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...
It may be helpful to contextualize Buffalo Boys through the lens of colonization. This Indonesian riff on the Spaghetti Western is given cultural specificity th...
There are quite a number of memorable moments peppered through Ben Is Back, an impressively effective addiction drama written and directed by Peter Hedges, star...
While he reached international acclaim with Barbara and Phoenix, Christian Petzold's filmography is full of rich, enigmatic genre riffs that delight with su...
Following This Is Not a Film (2011), Closed Curtain (2013), and Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi's fourth film made under his ban premiered at Cannes Film Festival...
After her acclaimed debut Sworn Virgin, director Laura Bispuri returned last year with Daughter of Mine, which stars a trio of actresses: Valeria Golino, Al...
As far as PG-13 horror films released in January go, Escape Room exceeds expectations despite a fairly sloppy (yet efficient) set-up which traces three of the s...
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options -- not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves -- we're highlighting the noteworthy ti...