Six years after directing his last feature, Dustin Guy Defa returns with The Adults, a film of complicated shared histories and gradually revealing inner lives...
A good conceit can go a long way. In 2017, a former U.S. Air Force member-turned-NSA translator named Reality Winner leaked a document to The Intercept exposin...
In BlackBerry, the rise of a blue-chip tech company sets the stage for the dissolution of a longstanding friendship. Sound familiar? Just wait ‘til you hear th...
Andrew Legge's Lola, a faux found footage film that plays with historical and science fiction, gives weight to an emerging idea: could this be the best year fo...
In the mid-length documentary I Saw, exiled Russian filmmaker Vadim Kostrov revisits an innocent day. It's autumn 2021 in Nizhny Tagil and two young men, Matve...
Infamous had Capote, Antz had A Bug’s Life—the list goes on. Enter The Fire Within, Werner Herzog’s latest brush with nature’s extremities, and the second docu...
In the middle of the 1970s, Sergei Parajanov was killing time. Imprisoned for what the authorities considered subversive activities (he was, amongst other thin...
Walk a few clicks from Venice's Palazzo del Cinema and you'll find the Hotel Excelsior, as grand a work of Moorish revival architecture as you can likely find ...
What room is left for an honest gunslinger in a world where their tropes are repackaged ad infinitum? Have meticulous imitators like Red Dead Redemption actual...
Love Life is one of those films that really wears its screenplay. The plot follows a mother's attempts to come to terms with the death of a child, but it's mor...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.
