When you think of short stories like W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" or Richard Matheson's "Button, Button" (adapted to the small screen for The Twilight Zone a...
The staggeringly accomplished debut feature by Brazilian critic-turned-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Neighboring Sounds, announced the arrival of a remarkable...
The most fascinating part of Steve Hoover's latest documentary Almost Holy is how its subject Gennadiy Mokhnenko parallels the life of well-known Russian cartoo...
A woman recalls the pivotal moments of her adult life in Julieta, the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar and his fifth to screen in competition here in Cannes. It...
Scot Armstrong’s Search Party, which is packed to the gils with comedic talent -- most of whom, thankfully, have found work that’s more tailored to their abili...
David McKenzie’s Hell or High Water is a gritty, darkly humorous, and fiendishly violent neo-western. Or, in other words, the type of film you might expect from...
In his Village Voice review of Jim Jarmusch’s criminally under-appreciated The Limits of Control, J. Hoberman described the director as “a full-blown talent er...
Pablo Larraín is not finished wrestling with his nation’s psyche. His first three films, Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and No, formed a loose triptych that confront...
Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton deliver remarkably nuanced performances in Loving, a late-'50s- / early-‘60s-set true life story of a mixed-race couple whose illeg...
In the past, the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse made a film about a mother seeking escape from domestic hell by killing her four young children (Our Children)...
