On the eve of its 30th birthday, Super Mario Bros.––the 1993 film, not the groundbreaking video game––might be due for critical reappraisal. Dubbed “a complete...
Sonny Vaccaro knows his basketball. As played with reliable conviction by Matt Damon, the head scout in Nike’s dwindling hoops division has a keen eye for the ...
Suffering from many of the same issues as Kasi Lemmons’ Witney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Spinning Gold contains too rich of a life for its 137-minu...
Beginning with the thesis statement “does anything really last," Ian Chaney’s obsessive inquiry The Arc of Oblivion wonders if the act of archiving is really a...
Not unlike the rage sparked within Bong Joon Ho’s now-classic Parasite, Paris Zarcilla's Raging Grace explores a perverse relationship between a wealthy estate...
Manuela Martelli’s debut film opens with a sequence that perfectly captures the tone and themes Chile ‘76 will explore. Carmen (played by Aline Kuppenheim) is ...
Sometimes it can be fun to watch a skillful band cover songs. Tony Tost’s Americana is precisely that: an ode to the drive-in B-movie which in turn influenced ...
The old saying goes you shouldn’t marry anyone you can’t stand to be with for a three-day train ride. This is perhaps the basis for most of Richard Linklater’s...
Building empathy through imagery, Ken August Myer’s documentary self-portrait Angel Applicant follows the filmmaker-subject as he attempts making sense of his ...
Often hilarious and moving, Adele Lim’s anticipated directorial debut Joy Ride takes the girls-trip formula (see: Bridesmaids and, of course, Girls Trip) in bo...
