Without raising too much of a film culture racket, the Predator films have endured for nearly four decades, steadily turning out a new entry every…
It’s been over a decade now since I caught Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture at the Vancouver Film Festival. The director’s chronicle of his memories…
For over three decades, British documentarian Adam Curtis has ferreted around the BBC archives, utilizing its resources to dissect, interpret, and otherwise obsess over a…
For fans of a certain kind of action movie, Diablo is one of the most anticipated releases of 2025. It marks the sixth collaboration between…
Dag Johan Haugerud’s approach to dialogue — in which two privately rapt characters waffle between a listener’s patience and a preening sense of self-regard —…
The rousing action epic may seem, in the age of bloated superhero flicks and video game adaptations, a thing of cinema’s past. If, for example,…
Comparisons to Everything Everywhere All at Once seem inevitable in the early buzz on Yang Li’s Escape from the 21st Century. The TIFF program guide…
Released — under no coincidental pretexts — within the same month as Jacinda Ardern’s autobiographical memoir of her time as New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Michelle…
Director July Jung’s first film, 2014’s A Girl at My Door, starred Bae Doona as a policewoman who gets transferred to a small fishing village…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that Celine…
To coin an adage, directing a Stephen King adaptation is like getting a tattoo: it’s difficult to stop at one. The only thing harder to…
It’s hard to pinpoint when Wes Anderson The Brand caught up with Wes Anderson The Director. It might have been some time around his spot…
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s new film can only be described as experimental. It doesn’t just explore the legacy of Martinican writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire, an intellectual whose ideas…
Grieving widow Kate Garrett (Julianne Moore) hides her struggles. She’s hard up financially, and relies on the dwindling generosity of her ex-husband, Richard (Kyle MacLachlan),…
Much has been made about the terror of the deep blue sea and its inhabitants, and the shark movie in particular is a genre unto…
What’s so titillating about Hong Kong? Certain cities have sex appeal, of course — it’s easier to imagine a ménage à trois in Paris than…
I Don’t Understand You, directed and written by married couple Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig, continually cashes in on the promise of its title.…
What Judaism has become in its projection into a popular culture is indisputably a messy construct, to speak in minimizing terms. Putting aside the immediacy…
Despite William Friedkin’s best efforts to shut the door on the subject over 50 years ago, religious horror tales of demonic possession persist, with many…