Reagan, directed by Sean McNamara and based on the 2006 Paul Kengor book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, accounts for the…
At a moment of especially heightened anxiety occurring — when else? — during Shabbat dinner, one of Between the Temples’ wiser characters offers a parable…
The dying days of French colonial rule are given ironically youthful life in Robin Campillo’s Red Island. Set in the early 1970s in Madagascar, the…
This critic has often compared Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s films to the work of Jacques Tati, but in their latest film, The Falling Star,…
All the markers of a classic Coen Brothers’ crime comedy are there in Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People — the third film released this year that…
Monica Sorelle’s feature debut, Mountains, is refreshingly simple. It follows demolition worker Xavier (Abiton Nazaire), a Haitian immigrant living in the Little Haiti neighborhood of…
It’s not much of a revelation to suggest that Sundance has gradually moved away from its independent roots and transformed into something more akin to…
The psychoanalytic term of the “big Other” is a fancy shorthand for our symbolic social order, and it’s what delimits most of our everyday lives…
Death and destruction are the mainstays of war, but it is war’s fatigue — long-drawn and uncertain, for both its combatants and victims — that…
From the 1880s until the 20th century’s final years, the Canadian government funded a system of residential schools for Indigenous children. Administered by various Christian…
There must be some sort of an unwritten connection between the warmth of summer and the heat of one’s newfound emotions, the ripeness in the…
We’re approaching the 2024 U.S. presidential election’s climactic stretch. We’re still processing the whiplash from a landmark sequence of events that could’ve been pulled straight…
There appears to be strange, insidious brand of conservatism permeating the culture. Far removed from Silicon Valley-funded reactionary wannabe bohemians, whose broader cultural impact is…
How do you prove that you don’t speak a language? Especially when that language, English, is a tool of centuries-old oppression wielded by one of…
It’s not surprising that an artist with a career as shape-shifting and genre-defying as Brian Eno would balk at receiving the conventional documentary treatment. After…
Rarely has a NEON film so thoroughly lived up to the colorless and inert nature of the studio namesake as does Mothers’ Instinct, the directorial…
Growing up is a complicated mess. That has always seemed to be the primary message behind most — if not all — coming-of-age films about…
Although his name may be unfamiliar to some, Chinese director Wei Shujun has already made several feature films, including 2021’s Ripples of Life, which also…
Nicole Riegel’s debut feature Holler was an unusually sharp bit of indie realism, an unvarnished look at economic depression in the aftermath of NAFTA via a…