The characters of Tótem don’t just appear onscreen; they take it over. From the top there's the patriarch Roberto (Alberto Amador), who speaks using an electro...
Watching over Beijing’s Xicheng district is an enormous white pagoda, a relic of the Kublai Khan rule, so majestic and otherworldly in looks and stature it mig...
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...
Just when you thought filmmakers and creators had exhausted everything worth saying in American high school-set comedies and thrillers, along comes Chicago-bas...
She Came to Me has designs on being a grand opera, but it’s definitely more of what the British call a panto. Opening at a swanky cocktail reception as a male ...
What does it mean to confront the colonial sins of the past and truly make reparations for the erasure of cultures? Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized directly explo...
In case you missed the Super Bowl spot for Christian Petzold's Afire during last night's big game, the first full trailer for the German auteur's new film has ...
One of the best showcases of international cinema every year, the Museum of the Moving Image's First Look festival is now in its 12th edition and we're pleased...
