Another example of a tasteful but passionless festival film, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut Joyland errs on the side of arch family drama when its most interesting...
Welcome to Antoine Bourges' love letter to the Thorncliffe Park apartment complex, better known as "Arrival City"—the usual landing spot for new immigrants com...
Jafar Panahi’s career can now be split into two distinct sections: his work prior to an initial 2010 arrest amidst Iran’s Green Movement, and his creative resp...
If one thing of late really sets Hong Sang-soo apart, it’s his unglamorous depiction of the film director. Appropriate to the small-scale of his corpus, these ...
In a year and festival where Steven Spielberg releases a reflective film on his own life and relationship to cinema, it's understandable that we get a war film...
General Purna (Arswendy Bening Swara) never had a son, so returning to his mansion to ready for a reelection campaign (the days of military dictatorship in Ind...
At twenty-six years of age, Brazilian Maya Gabeira was at the top of her sport. A world champion. Winner of countless awards. On covers of magazines. And reppe...
Australia’s answer to the 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner CODA is here. I’m only half-joking. Blueback is a bit better than the movie that most recently won Bes...
A hopeful and bittersweet plea for a better future, Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ 67-minute oddity Will-o’-the-Wisp covers three periods in the life of Alfredo, a “Pri...
Everyone over the age of eighteen (those fifteen and older become eligible on their eighteenth birthday) will receive twenty-two dollars a month for twelve yea...
