2018
A Bread Factory may be dispiriting, but it’s a vital reminder to preserve community spaces, and form connections with those who appreciate the arts.
Mirai may feel more like a series of vignettes thrown together rather than a cohesive whole, but Hosoda’s wondrous animation style, coupled with a personal look at family dynamics, makes it hard to resist.
Anchored by three brilliant central performances, Dragged Across Concrete is an interesting, unpredictable movie that zigs when we expect it to zag.
A Bread Factory is a sprawling epic with an intimate touch, which perfectly articulates why community art spaces are necessary in the modern world.
Director David Gleeson constructs a haunting but picturesque film with Don’t Go, a sci-fi about grief and loss.
Cam may not be the full blooded horror its festival hype suggests, but it’s an involving glance at an online world through an unnerving lens.
Write When You Get Work can be sweet, and there are semblances of earnest intentions, but overall it feels tame.
While the Doctor and her gang save the day once again, “Kerblam!” plays with the subconscious fear of technology in the workplace, and its ability to take on tasks previously carried out by humans.
A slow-burner, The Clovehitch Killer toys with your mind, leaving you to question what you already know to be true.
The Last Race is a beautiful documentary that is, able to move between overtly stylized and ethnographic motifs while still remaining a unified piece.
Welcome Home has a melting pot of possibilities, preying on human fear, but much like its local creep, it skulks when it should attack.
Jonathan is a rare and affecting fair, as tenuous as life is, especially when there’s a divergence within your own skin.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a staggering achievement of filmmaking, and an essential American text.
Green Book is an easygoing film about difficult issues, and that dichotomy will rub many people the wrong way, but will charm others.
Transit finds Christian Petzold on the same end of the telescope as his previous films, but looking through a more sophisticated, evolved tool with a wider view of the medium.