Radu Jude has been rolling through features since his international breakout Aferim! in 2015, and his taste is nearly impossible to pin down. The films range f...
Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might as well have formed sensory memories of a throat-clenching terror, the sc...
If 19th- and 20th-century storytelling was defined by grandiose literature, the 21st is all about cinema. We read less and watch more; consequently, films ...
Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva—winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize—begins from a familiar cinematic premise: a school trip abroad for a busload of re...
From A Star is Born to Vox Lux to Inside Llewyn Davis, cinema abounds with stories of jaded musicians who either burned too bright or never quite reached the h...
“We feel like this is just the start now, you see? I feel like nothing happened before today.” –– John Lennon
It’s strange that Yoko Ono isn’t mentioned in ...
The parting image in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless was a woman in a tracksuit with the word "RUSSIA" printed over it running on a treadmill—a pointed metaphor ...
In 1858, pre-Freud times, a castle in the Yorkshire moors of Northern England by the name of Ensor House becomes the new dwelling place for young governess Win...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 SXSW coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 22.
A parody of dialectical materialism (you...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Slamdance coverage. The film is now on the Letterboxd Video Store, opens in theaters on May 21, ...
