NYFF Review: All About My Sisters is an Intimate, Affecting, and Brutal Look Behind China’s One-Child Policy

All About My Sisters, the nearly three-hour documentary debut from Wang Qiong, could be called All About My Sister. More specifically her sister Jin, who was a...

Venice Review: Pedro Almodóvar Delivers a Zesty if Underwhelming Melodrama with Parallel Mothers

T. S. Eliot gave it a cryptic name in The Waste Land: "The Burial of the Dead." Pedro Almodóvar has instructed his glamorous cast in Parallel Mothers to carry ...

Telluride Film Festival Unveils 2021 Lineup

As usual, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled their 2021 lineup just moments before the event gets underway. Taking place from Thursday, September 2 through M...

59th New York Film Festival Adds C’mon C’mon, Dune, Red Rocket, The French Dispatch & More

The 59th New York Film Festival continues to expand its lineup, following Main Slate and Revivals announcements. The in-person event, which will take place fro...

Cannes Review: The Employer and the Employee Examines a Transactional Relationship with Tension

All relationships are to some extent transactional, but none more than that between employer and employee. One provides capital, the other labor. This dynamic ...

2021 Cannes Classics Lineup Includes Orson Welles, Powell and Pressburger, Tilda Swinton & More

Yes, sure, all the new films are exciting and sure to dominate discourse from here to January, but every year (i.e. when a pandemic doesn't kneecap them) the C...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Mike Nichols, Dazed and Confused, Tenet, Fury Road & More

The end of 2020 and the start of 2021 have featured a diverse and dynamic collection of cinema-related books. Let's start with two of these, a biography of dir...

kid 90 Review: The Trials and Tribulations of Young Hollywood Stardom

My mindset entering Soleil Moon Frye's autobiographical documentary kid 90 anticipated a fun, nostalgic, low stakes look at kid celebrities. That's what the sl...

Berlinale 2021 Lineup Includes New Films by Céline Sciamma, Hong Sang-soo, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi & More

This year's Berlin International Film Festival will look a bit different this year, with a virtual edition taking place March 1-5 for industry and press, then ...

Sundance Review: Human Factors Takes a Passive Look at the Aftermath of a Home Invasion

Following a family that begins to unravel after a home invasion, Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors has an ambitiously unconventional structure that leads to a conv...