To belong to the diaspora is to inhabit a paradox: a state of in-betweenness, neither fully inside or outside one’s home and adoptive countries. Films tryi...
It’s rare for a film as good as First Light to slip through the cracks of the major festivals. This debut feature from Filipino-Australian director James J...
Spoiler culture may be one of the lowest forms of film conversation, but there are times when it simply must be invoked. This is to say that Nirvanna the B...
In a stray moment during Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon, a young man says he stopped complaining to his landlord about the cockroaches invading his L.A. flat les...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Pillion opens in theaters on February 6.
It wouldn’t be Cannes without a...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Sirat opens on February 6, 2026.
For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The President's Cake opens in theaters on February 6.
Among the best thi...
An exacting, well-articulated portrait of a Kosovan family in crisis as they attempt to make ends meet, Shame and Money confronts anxieties in a life drown...
Even before his campaign for the removal of indigenous people from their land in the 1800s, Thomas Jefferson was pillaging burial grounds under the guise o...
Among Sundance's great pleasures is the experience of a film steadily building buzz to the point where it becomes the talk of the fest. Seats become scarce...
