One of the best-curated festivals devoted to Asian cinema begins this week. The San Diego Asian Film Festival, now in its 23rd edition, will feature 130-plus f...
The mark of any successful directorial debut is whether you can find the makings of a distinctive authorial voice underneath various layers of homage to the ob...
At a brisk 60 minutes, Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot’s mother-son collaboration The Super 8 Years doesn’t leave time for introductions. Ernaux, a recent ...
Following Maher (Maher El Kahir), a Sudanese bricklayer, Ali Cherri’s The Dam oscillates between the natural and fantastic. Maher works by the Merowe Dam, a pr...
Mirroring the isolation of the current, continued pandemic, Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi’s Remote pushes audiences into an unspecified future year. In this...
David Johansen has been called many names in his life. He’s been the lead singer of the New York Dolls. He’s been Buster Poindexter. He’s been a member of the ...
The ebbs and flows of a rather long, deliberately paced narrative can test most viewers. Especially difficult when it seems the movie’s central conflict doesn’...
More than just a documentary detailing the circumstances surrounding Rickey Jackson's 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, Matt Waldeck's Lovely Jac...
Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio is widely understood as an easily accessible coming-of-age metaphor—peeling back our childlike wonderment at the wo...
“Can I quote you?” As it did throughout Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey’s intrepid investigative journalism for the New York Times, that question reverberates in...
