Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The multihyphenate artist discusses why the medium she wants to work in comes before her ideas.
The low-key, serene natural beauty of Beginning’s setting provides a counterpoint to the often-disturbing events of the film.
It operates in an ambiguous register, suggesting that a woman is working in unison with nature to dole out revenge for their exploitation.
Although its crime-caper structure is worn extremely lightly, Kajillionaire represents Miranda July’s first real flirtation with genre.
Ava isn’t only banal, but also, in its half-hearted stabs at novel ideas, seemingly content with its banality.
The film reminds us that behind the numbers and procedures of a court case are actual lives existing in actual, human time.
In Kossakovsky’s latest, common farm animals have rarely seemed so un-human.
The documentary’s ethnographic bent is balanced out by a healthy dose of hard science.
Thomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract.
The structure of Wildfire’s narrative doesn’t emerge out of a simplistic progression from strife to reconciliation.
The film’s reminder of the fragility of agrarian traditions in the face of a merciless profit motive is delivered with tact and subtlety.
Concrete Cowboy is stirring when it really dives into specificity.
When the film’s actors are given space to etch their characters’ feelings, they turn in strikingly naturalistic performances.
There’s something equal parts twisted and romantic about the format of the drive-in theater uniting with theater-killing streaming technology to preserve the institution of the film festival.
Sean Durkin’s sweated-over filmmaking tediously lifts a familiar tale of domestic dysfunction to the level of myth.
Throughout, J Blakeson crafts sharp, curt dialogue that makes a fashion statement out of contempt.
The film refrains from any dubious moral calculations by giving King’s personal deceptions the same weight as his public morality.
The film is ultimately too tidy to embrace anything truly startling or unexpected, either stylistically or narratively.
Throughout, the characters aren’t allowed to reveal themselves apart from the dictates of the plot.
The film understands how its major cultural figures navigated a political minefield, while never taking its eyes off of them as people.