Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The film flirts with miserablism, but it counterbalances the direness of Nisha’s situation with moments of levity.
Kimberly Reed’s approach is too bloodless to make us feel the full weight of the injustices her film identifies.
The pleasure of Denis Côté’s film radiates from the meditative force of its formal construction.
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary only gives fleeting celebration to the wildfire of Whitney Houston’s success.
Granik talks about how she learned to connect with those in the heartland.
The sobriety of its vision serves as a conscious respite from the hyperbolic hate machine of modern American culture.
The horror throughout the film is dramatically connected to the struggles of poor and marginalized people.
No description can do justice to its best moments, which render the absurd and sublime one and the same.
For all of Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s theoretical interest in empathy, he’s awfully hard on his female characters.
The acclaimed musician discusses his fight against cancer and his unique approach to music.
Director Roland Vranik adheres too rigidly to news-cycle replications of barbaric governmental acts.
Josephine Decker is a dazzling artist, most notably for her commitment to everything that drives her characters.
The droll world of Joel Potrykus’s Relaxer is defined by feats of man-child pettiness.
The plot takes leaps that feel as reckless as they are refreshing in such a doleful film of terminal prognoses.
The film emphasizes, for better and worse, the crushing monotony of living in insolated parts of the Deep South.
There’s nothing like summer to remind the world that film is primarily a business and a ruthless one at that.
The film’s time-travel device mostly just exists to complicate what is, at heart, a trite and sexist love story.
Tim Wardle tells an extraordinary and troubling story without diving below the surface excitement of its twists.
Director Charles Stone III’s Uncle Drew is mostly an excuse to watch NBA greats horse around in funny getups.
The film is committed to the idea that heroism isn’t a burden but an uplifting realization of our best qualities.