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Subversive, icky and incessantly spellbinding, writer-director Anthony Stabley operates artistically well in Everlasting.
Matteo Garrone is arguably one of the most talented filmmakers working today. He is certainly,…
In the latest of our Video Dispatch series, we discuss the recent home video releases The Mule, Dragged Across Concrete, and Blaze.
In this latest Video Dispatch, we discuss Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 13-hour TV production Berlin Alexanderplatz.
City of God is a great introduction to world cinema – and here’s our guide to the best foreign language films to seek out afterwards.
For being his directorial debut, Milorad Krstić’s Ruben Brandt, Collector is an astounding example of how boundless the animation medium has become.
DaCosta makes a promising debut with Little Woods, showing an ambitious thematic depth while keeping the story affectingly small.
Stockholm is successful in doing the impossible – making the viewer understand and even empathize with the interpersonal connection between a hostage and her captor, and vice versa.
Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s Birds of Passage takes us to the Guajira Peninsula, a…
Finding Steve McQueen is an unfortunately dull heist film, bogged down by unnecessary subplots and a lack of overall energy.
Even as it skims too lightly over its complex themes, A Vigilante manages to capture a resilience and toughness that often goes unhailed on film.
Out of Blue can’t be faulted for its ambitions, but there’s a lack of focus, oscillating wildly between genres and never satisfying as any.
Spring Breakers may be much more profound of a film than initially thought, lucidly expressing our fascination with money and violence.
The film’s attempts at multiple genres may not blend together, but the talented cast and direction by Chandor help raise it above its flaws.
The Highwaymen is a well-intentioned Western drama that takes a new perspective on the Bonnie & Clyde mythology, but it needs another run at tightening the runtime.