There’s something about childhood memories that’s inherently sweet, hopeful—how we saw and remembered the world before we learned about loss and disappointment...
There’s not much exposition in Hit the Road. In fact it takes most of Panah Panahi’s remarkable directorial debut, about a family traveling across northwestern...
With her sophomore feature, French writer, director, and provocateur Julia Ducournau has secured her place in film history and proven herself a serious talent....
Few films announce their mission statement within their opening frames to quite the extent of The Harder They Fall. An introductory title card informs the audi...
Nick's (Dustin Gooch) mother just passed away. One more source of stress to go along with marriage, parenthood, and the reality that a year of not taking a pay...
As we learned during the pandemic, some things take two shots to fully work. I saw Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom at Cannes this summer. A c...
It's easy to pick out two of the talking heads in Susan Stern's Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez, a documentary about her husband. Robert Crumb, the ar...
Though she had just experienced the racial abuse of a redneck throwing a glass bottle at her Native American roommate Chrissy B. (Devery Jacobs) before screami...
A moment at the beginning of Sarah T Schwab's adaptation of Life After You tells you all you need to know about the central mother-son relationship. Linda (co-...
Mike Mills could be described as a graphic designer. Or a musician. Or a music-video director. He’s a frequent collaborator of The National, directing a short ...
