There's
a big difference beyond adaptation and assimilation. One is additive. The other
is subtractive. One deals in compromise with two sides adjusting their
...
“How do you feel about the crime you committed? Remorse for the victim?” This question is posed early in Under the Open Sky to an aging figure named Mikami. He...
It's
the kind of grift that would make 'Slippin'" Jimmy McGill proud. Marla
Grayson (Rosamund Pike) calls up her friend Dr. Amos (Alicia Witt) to get a
line on...
It is apropos that Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby is screening in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery platform. It is a discovery, in every sense: ...
Two Africans, an Afghan, and a Syrian walk onto a remote island in Scotland. The punch line potential is infinite. Writer/director Ben Sharrock knows it too as...
You
can only hide so many eviction notices underneath the porch flowerpot before a
bank official finds and tapes them all onto the front door. This is where we...
Director
Argyris Papadimitropoulos' Monday
feels like it's going to be a wild ride right from the start as Chloe (Denise
Gough) screams into her phone at the v...
There is a palpable sense of exhaustion and an air of dread over nearly every scene in Akilla’s Escape. It’s no wonder that despite the legalization of marijua...
Take one look at the state of the world in 2020 and you can understand why The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel exists, overexplanatory titl...
For all its contemporary elements, the story of Nomadland is as old as America itself. It’s the same hymn about the myth of the open road, stretching onwards i...
