The inescapable problem at the core of any omnibus or anthology film with multiple cooks in the kitchen is, by all design, things will be uneven. Yet V/H/S/99 ...
Peter Farrelly’s career is a fascinating example of a director whose brand of cinema became completely out of vogue after following a major American political ...
Horror movies, like documentaries, have a knack for rolling the cameras whenever tragedy strikes. It didn’t come as much of a surprise when, mere months after ...
Any movie about the value of movies should be met with a healthy level of skepticism. There’s the obvious amount of self-satisfaction involved (maybe it’s just...
It comes as no surprise to see a film like The Menu come out of a major studio like Searchlight Pictures. Populism has been around for a good while, but it’s h...
While we're in the middle of the fall festival season, with Telluride, Venice, and TIFF in the rearview, and NYFF, BFI London, and AFI Fest on the horizon, it'...
With Sidney Poitier's own voice providing the narrative backbone to Reginald Hudlin's documentary Sidney, we get to rediscover just what a wonderful storytelle...
Another example of a tasteful but passionless festival film, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut Joyland errs on the side of arch family drama when its most interesting...
Welcome to Antoine Bourges' love letter to the Thorncliffe Park apartment complex, better known as "Arrival City"—the usual landing spot for new immigrants com...
Jafar Panahi’s career can now be split into two distinct sections: his work prior to an initial 2010 arrest amidst Iran’s Green Movement, and his creative resp...
