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PAPER MOON Criterion Review: The Bogdanovich Classic Comes to 4K
PAPER MOON Criterion Review: The Bogdanovich Classic Comes to 4K

Criterion’s new edition of Paper Moon is what so many have been long waiting for—a definitive release of this staple of 1970s American cinema.

GREEDY PEOPLE: Money, It's A Crime
GREEDY PEOPLE: Money, It’s A Crime

The direction, the cinematography, the lighting, all of it mesh together to highlight the wild and always forward story that is Greedy People.

THE CROW: An Exercise In Why
THE CROW: An Exercise In Why

The Crow struggles to connect with audiences due to its lack of compelling character development and chemistry.

Toronto International Film Festival 2024: THE ASSESSMENT & EMILIA PEREZ
Toronto International Film Festival 2024: THE ASSESSMENT & EMILIA PÉREZ

Both The Assessment and Emilia Pérez demonstrate the versatility of a festival like TIFF, which is always inclusive of all genres and subgenres of cinema.

RED ROOMS: Half Sick Of Shadows Online
RED ROOMS: Half Sick Of Shadows Online

Red Rooms is hypnotic, eerie, enticing, and undeniably repulsive, a procedural with the stifling rhythms of an addiction story or a dream.

The Penguin Trailer 1
THE PENGUIN TRAILER 1

Following the events of “The Batman,” Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot is a gangster aiming to rise to the top of the criminal underworld in “The Penguin.”

TRAP: A Concert You'll Want To Bail
TRAP: A Concert You’ll Want To Bail

Trap is a movie seemingly gift-wrapped for greatness that eventually crumbles under its own logic.

THE INSTIGATORS: Requiem for the Boston Movie
THE INSTIGATORS: Requiem for the Boston Movie

The Instigators evokes the Boston movies of yore like a Dunkin’ drinkin’ Ghost of Christmas Past.

New York Asian Film Festival 2024: PATTAYA HEAT, TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN &BRUSH OF THE GOD
New York Asian Film Festival 2024: PATTAYA HEAT, TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN & BRUSH OF THE GOD

From this year’s New York Asian Film Festival we take a look at Pattaya Heat, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In & Brush of the God!

LONGLEGS: A Cinematic Embodiment Of The Cruel And The Uncanny
LONGLEGS: A Cinematic Embodiment Of The Cruel And The Uncanny

Overall, Longlegs is well-directed, artistically apt, and really, really suspenseful.

THE BIKERIDERS: An Inspired, Understated Look at Early Bike Culture
THE BIKERIDERS: An Inspired, Understated Look at Early Bike Culture

The Bikeriders is a memorable addition to Jeff Nichols’ ouvre.

LIMBO: Out In The Open With Nowhere To Turn
LIMBO: Out In The Open With Nowhere To Turn

Limbo is a fish-out-of-water tale in a barren Outback town.

"I Try To Find The Humanity That I Still Have Hope We All Have": Interview with Karl R. Hearne and Dale Dickey for The G
Glasgow Film Festival 2024: THE G

While occasionally veering into an overly complicated and opaque narrative structure, The G is a fun genre thriller with an incredible performance.

Horrific Inquiry: FUNNY GAMES (2007)

Horror films have trained us to expect the final girl, but Funny Games does not acknowledge this hope and desire for survival.

Sundance Film Festival 2024: PONYBOI, HANDLING THE UNDEAD & GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
Sundance Film Festival 2024: PONYBOI, HANDLING THE UNDEAD & GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS

With this report of the Sundance Film Festival, I delve into a world of crime, of the dead returning to life, and a true coming-of-age story.