Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Fern Silva approaches an idyllic yet troubled archipelago with a cosmically open-minded humanism.
The film, lacking in conflict and danger, is guided by the poignant belief that there’s no end to the world.
Throughout his latest feature, Andersson offers a sustained autocritique of his own authorial control.
Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
The film is a disastrous amalgamation of modern-day tech-savvy thrills and Clancy’s conservative expressions of patriotism.
The filmmaker discusses how he recognized and responded to the many contradictions contained within Limbo from script to shooting.
The film’s rendering of the interplay of memory, identity, and grief is disappointingly vague.
The documentary’s aesthetics strikingly channel the euphoric feelings induced by Ethopia’s top cash crop.
Amalia Ulman’s film is a bittersweet comedy of human behavior observed with a relaxed yet intently focused eye.
Throughout its running time, Ben Sharrock’s film seesaws between the haunting and the irritating.
In spite of its occasionally engaging displays of gnarly brutality, the film too often feels like an adaptation of a player select screen.
By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
While the film certainly lays out the dangers of technology run amok, it also sees its power to connect people.
While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
We’re countering this Oscar year’s slow death of a thousand cuts by ripping the whole bandage off.
Ed Helms and Patti Harrison’s wonderful rapport helps to keep the film grounded in the recognizably real.
Much of the film’s power comes from a series of deft, often wry juxtapositions between video and audio.
The filmmaker discusses shooting the film in the midst of the Covid pandemic, and his belief in why stories come from within us.
Chasing Ghosts somehow feels simultaneously focused and appealingly free-associational.
Ultimately, the film is unable to overcome the mundanity of its simple, overly familiar scenario.