THE STRANGER Review: Senseless Actions, Racist History
François Ozon adapts Albert Camus' classic novel, giving a deeper context of understanding the protagonist's senseless actions, based on France's racist colonial history.
YES Review: Singing Bootlicker Blues
Nadav Lapid's searing satire stars Ariel Bronz and Efrat Dor. It's obnoxiously pointy and honest, yet sad.
MIROIRS NO. 3 Review: Compact and Masterful, with Affecting Performances
Christian Petzold's film stars Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, and Enno Trebs.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026: Preview
Mark your calendars! From March 5-15, at Film at Lincoln Center in New York, co-presented with Unifrance, the 31st edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema demonstrates that the landscape of French cinema is as fertile, inspiring, and distinct as ever....
Politics of Time: The Films of Anocha Suwichakornpong at Metrograph
Metrograph, New York's Lower Eastside repertory/arthouse film institution, is surveying the works of Thai filmmaker, Anocha Suwichakornpong, starting February 21st through two consecutive weekend screening of her feature-length and short films, as well as streaming of her work for home...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2025
Here at ScreenAnarchy we wish you all a very fortuitous 2026! And now that we're in a new year, let's close off the old one with our traditional Top 10 list. This time, 21 of our writers forwarded their favorite...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 25 Films Of The 21st Century
We're almost at the end of the year 2025, and that means that the first quarter of the century is already gone. How did that happen so fast? Do quarter centuries currently go by as fast as decades did when...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
MR. K Review: Revealing a Grand Illusion
Crispin Glover stars. If you want to take a mental break from complicated and intricate plotting, and give in to the absurdities of an European art flick, 'Mr. K' will be a highly rewarding moviegoing experience.
New York 2025 Review: MIROIRS NO. 3, Haunted By the Idea of a Perfect Family
Paula Beer stars in Christian Petzold's new film. As the title suggests, everything is a reflection of what should have been. It's the idea of a perfect family that haunts his characters.
New York 2025 Review: THE FENCE, Commercial Colonialism, Filled With Sensuality and Lyricism
Matt Dillon, Tom Blyth and Isaach De Bankolé star in Claire Denis' new film.
New York 2025 Review: THE MASTERMIND, Underwhelming Genre Exercise
Josh O'Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro star in Kelly Reichardt's new film.
New York 2025 Review: PIN DE FARTIE, Choreographed Verbal Farewells
Laura Paredes, Marcos Ferrante and Santigo Gobernori star in Argentine director Alejo Moguillansky's film.
New York 2025 Review: DRACULA, Sucking the Blood of the Proletariat
Radu Jude directs a decidedly and intentionally bad movie.
SUSPENDED TIME Review: Brief Utopia in Olivier Assayas' COVID-19 Film
For French auteur Olivier Assayas, one of most astute observers of our changing times, it is perhaps his most personal and autobiographical film to date.
AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE Review: Brutal and Gory, Capturing the Purity of the Ritual
Albert Serra's documentary peers into the life of bull fighter Andrés Roca Rey.
Tribeca 2025 Review: In UNDERLAND, Experience Deep Time
Robert Petit loosely adapts the best selling non-fiction by Robert Macfarlane.
Cannes 2025 Review: A USEFUL GHOST, The Importance of Remembering
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's feature debut tells a very queer ghost story within a story about the importance of remembering.
Cannes 2025 Review: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST, Existential Angst in Animated Feature
Directed by Félix Dufour-Laperriére, the Canadian-French film deals with a hefty subject in an unique and intriguing way.
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES Review: Silence Is Golden
Master director Jia Zhangke's new film.
