Despite a relatively unassuming title, Henry Butash’s ruminative feature debut, The Atlantic City Story, is a quietly profound, muted character study, followin...
How can one begin to contemplate losing the person they love most in the world? It’s difficult to think about and often, as human beings, we put off the future...
It's a tough act for a critic to try and explain the joys and pleasures of Derek DelGaudio’s In & of Itself. In short, it’s an evocative exploration of nar...
There’s a moment in Midnight in Paris that strikes because of its simple beauty and melancholy. The seniors of Flint Northern High School’s Class of 2012 made ...
With his latest feature Genus Pan, the king of slow cinema Lav Diaz proves that even his fleet-footed efforts can be an unrelenting experience. Clocking in at ...
While much entertainment can be had from stories of successful, high-level crime families, tales of low-level crime syndicates are often far more impactful. Ca...
As an optimist that believes theatrical exhibition will survive, I look forward to the day when David Prior’s The Empty Man is introduced by a genre geek at an...
Throughout the whole of Don Herzfeldt's World of Tomorrow trilogy, one thing is always constant; even in a future of amazing technology, it will be the ineffab...
Traditions don’t disappear overnight. They slip away slowly over decades, as elders die off and younger generations experience shifts in priority, social norms...
Documentarian Elizabeth Lo gravitates toward subjects who live and survive on the margins. Her amazing run of short non-fiction work bears this out. Hotel 22 (...
