It’s hard to open a review of Aquarius with any summary or overview of what the film is about, just because so much of what makes Kleber Mendonca Filho’s follow-up to [...]
If the devolution of bromance over the last couple of years has taught us anything, it’s that there’s nothing especially humane about the bro code, just as there’s [...]
It takes a certain kind of director to film a short story, or a series of short stories, and really pull it off. Although different kinds of short stories have different [...]
Over the last decade or so, the Western has been in decline. While there have been no shortage of actual Westerns, these have tended to construe themselves in a [...]
There can be no doubt that Laszlo Nemes’ Son of Saul is in some sense one of the greatest feature films made about the Holocaust, even if its greatness lies in the ways in [...]
Based on a classical Chinese short story from the Tang Period – Pei Xing’s “Nie Yinniang” – The Assassin is one of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s most mysterious and mercurial [...]
Any film about Lance Armstrong is faced with a couple of difficult questions. On the one hand, how you strike the right balance between a sports biopic and an expose of his [...]
Even though white people no longer make up the majority of the population in vast areas of America, the white body – and the white male body – is still presented by the [...]
By this moment in time, the 70s pastiche has become a genre in itself. In fact, we’re arguably in a second phase in which 70s pastiche films are directly influenced by and [...]
While the convergence of independent and mainstream cinema in the digital era has opened up all kinds of new possibilities and opportunities for professional mobility, it has [...]