Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Netflix has released the trailer for Welles’s unfinished last film.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani lose grasp of the snap and tension that drive even a mediocre heist narrative.
Happy as Lazzaro is one of the sharper, and funnier, recent films to reckon with the injustices of class disparities.
The actor and comedian discusses the similarity of his process across genres.
The film cannot fully repress its almost erotic longing for the unfettered violence of the terrorist.
The film never manages to reconcile the enormity of the Holocaust with how ordinary a bureaucrat Eichmann was.
Bujalski discusses making films as balancing order with chaos.
The film aims only to shock, refusing to deliver anything in an intriguingly post-ironic way in the process.
It evinces a complex understanding of spirituality and faith that would inform all of Tarkovsky’s subsequent films.
The film celebrates the unrecognized willpower and perseverance that undergirds low-wage service work in this country.
Colin Minihan’s film benefits, above all, from Brittany Allen’s shatteringly naturalistic performance.
The film proffers the sort of cinematic nowhere place that’s all too common of an increasingly corporate, globalized cinema.
Isabel Coixet’s intermittent visual flourishes do little to amplify the stakes of her low-key narrative.
The film is a vivid illustration of how racism is perpetrated through the structure of nominally egalitarian institutions.
The film’s labored juxtapositions create fission, the feel of a director scrambling to dictate the game.
Mother and daughter discuss the sacrifices women make for men.
The director discusses how his film functions in the larger conversation of queer cinema.
Mile 22’s action passes by as jumbled images from various vantage points, all edited together with no rhyme or reason.
Alpha’s simplistic interactions between man and canine don’t exactly convey the difficulties of a wild animal overcoming millennia of instinct.
With Ray & Liz, Richard Billingham delivers a richly evocative portrait of working-class life in the British Midlands.