Guigui: 9/11 (2017)
While films about September 11 have courted controversy in various ways, none has been as outright disavowed and condemned as Martin Guigui’s 9/11, despite being based on a [...]
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Zvyagintsev: Nelyubov (Loveless) (2017)
Andrey Zvyagnintsev’s latest film is both more focused and more expansive than the grand novelistic sweep of Leviathan, using a family in crisis as a way of commenting upon [...]
Gray: The Lost City of Z (2017)
Throughout his career, James Gray has built a signature around films that seem ineffably out of time – not exactly pastiches, or period recreations, but films that just [...]
Soderbergh: Unsane (2018)
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is the latest in his extraordinary body of work since “returning” to cinema – an emergent post-cinematic opus that already contains his [...]
Ducournau: Raw (2017)
I don’t think I can remember seeing a film as visceral and overwhelming as Julia Ducournau’s debut feature Raw, which actually induced me to pass out in a cold faint [...]
Silverstein & Kohn: I Feel Pretty (2018)
It may not have been especially successful with the critics, but I Feel Pretty is easily Amy Schumer’s best film. The premise is clear to anyone who has seen the trailer, [...]
Loch Ness: Season 1 (2017)
One of the most delightfully absurd releases I have seen in a long time, Loch Ness markets itself somewhat half-heartedly as a “quality” crime series but really takes [...]
Carr: Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
Erin Lee Carr’s documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest delves into one of the strangest and most unsettling true crime sagas of recent years – the murder of forty-eight year [...]
Potter: The Party (2017)
At first, Sally Potter’s latest film seems like her most conventional, at least on the surface, revolving around the events that ensue at a dinner party held to celebrate [...]
Bruckner: The Ritual (2017)
All in all, The Ritual is one of the most stunning films that I have seen on Netflix, and probably the best horror film, aligning itself so well with the particular style and [...]