Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 New York Film Festival coverage. The Friend opens in theaters on March 28 from Bleecker Street.
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With her second feature film, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni looks at the pain, memory, and absurdity of familial Zambian tradition. On Becoming a Guinea...
On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old single mom, drove into downtown San Francisco, pushed her way to the front of a crowded barricade, reache...
Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today exists in the world of Beatlemania. It uses archival footage from the lead-up to the Beatles conc...
Steve McQueen has long been upfront about his desire to make a musical; before Widows underwhelmed at the box office, it appeared likely that a passion project...
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross' narrative feature debut, is the story of a stubborn world, resisting change. Adapted from Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, it's an...
As exciting as it can be to see some of the most-anticipated films of the year at their festival debuts, it's perhaps even a more enticing proposition to seek ...
After exploring World War II with last year's more experimental documentary Occupied City, Steve McQueen returns to the subject matter on an epic canvas with t...
Mike Leigh is nothing if not an expert at conceiving (in conjunction with talented actors) a certain kind of larger-than-life character. Well, larger-than-life...
After crafting one of the most remarkable documentaries of the last few years with the Apichatpong Weerasethakul-backed, Sundance-winning, Oscar-nominated ...
