In the heyday of big-screen entertainment Thailand was home to some 700 standalone single-screen theaters. By 2019 only one of them survived in Bangkok. It was...
It took seven years before any filmmaker dared touch the Utøya massacre; then in 2018, all of a sudden, we had two too many. It probably didn't help that the f...
Our introductions to writer/director Ashley McKenzie's leads in Queens of the Qing Dynasty are not to be forgotten. Whether Star's (Sarah Walker) open-mouthed ...
Less a film than an experience, Jorge Jácome's Super Natural is the kind of work that only achieves the sort of transcendence it aspires towards if the viewer ...
Denis Côté is a weird kind of humanist, arriving at that angle from an offbeat starting point. Maybe the key to his work thus far is his short, powerful 2012 d...
Big agriculture and a renewable energy company (of all people) threaten the livelihood of a Catalonian peach farming family in Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s latest s...
In the late 1950s newly elected President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitscheck ordered the country’s capital be moved from Rio de Janeiro toward a more central loca...
Spotting COVID-era ephemera was novel in the films of 2021—even in some of the best. As early as last February we saw masks being worn, some pointedly below th...
Ethan (Wyatt Oleff) doesn't have to say anything when he appears at his brother Derek's (Fin Argus) work unannounced. They've gone through this too many times ...
Directors Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas describe their film The City and the City as the untold story of Thessaloniki, Greece. It isn't that because ...
