Avoiding the trappings of other melodramas about the short lives of terminally ill teens, Asia is a restrained and nuanced exploration of the relationship betw...
Any professional dealing with routine levels of stress and trauma is bound to develop a morbid sense of humor–and the funny horror-comedy 12 Hour Shift might b...
Before a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour a few years ago at the New York Film Festival, programmer Dennis Lim read a note from t...
Exploring the relationships between comedians and the women that made them funny, Call Your Mother is a fun and sincere ode to the creative process. Directed b...
There’s something wonderful about a childhood experience like those chronicled in Through the Night, a film that mostly looks at the hardships of motherhood bu...
Channeling both his debut feature The Lie and Humpday, his mumblecore outing with director Lynn Shelton, Joshua Leonard's Fully Realized Humans is an emotional...
It
wasn't until her early thirties that Tamara Mariam Dawit first discovered her
father had a fifth sister named Selamawit. When she broached the subject with
...
In the two decades since his passing, Stanley Kubrick's filmmaking vision continues to be a subject of endless curiosity. Documentarian Gregory Monro’s newest ...
The
hope is that the sorrow of losing a loved one proves the extent of the pain we
must suffer before we set about sifting through what's left of that expired
...
Whether it’s Pan’s Labyrinth or Where the Wild Things Are or The Fall, the narrative side of cinema is rich with stories of children escaping a harsh reality t...
