NICKEL BOYS Review: Important Story, POV Troubles
Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor star in director RaMell Ross' adaptation of Colson Whitehead's prize-winning novel.
IT'S NOT ME Review: The Best Cinematic Self-Portrait One Could Wish For
Filmmaker Leos Carax is embracing Godard again more openly, for the benefit of composing a dense, visually sumptuous self-portrait.
DOC NYC 2024 Review: UNION, A Film That Won't Be Streaming on Amazon
In a world of plutocracy, the working-class struggle is not a left or right issue.
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Review: A Major Work of Contemporary Indian Cinema
Payal Kapadia's soul-stirring docudrama, A Night of Knowing Nothing, delicately weaved together India's national politics, student protest movement, cinema, and its nostalgia in 2021. Her follow-up narrative film, All We Imagine as Light, proves that she is one of the...
New York 2024 Review: LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR Conjures Up Celestial Music
Jem Cohen makes a gentle inquiry to human connections while presenting it within the bigger picture; in this case, the universe.
New York 2024 Review: CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, Time Passing, Observed Silently
Jia finally makes a silent movie star out of Zhao Tao.
New York 2024 Review: APRIL, A Strange Manifestation
Dea Kulumbegashvili's second feature is a challenging, feminist work, to say the least.
New York 2024 Review: NO OTHER LAND Chronicles Living Under Occupation
The suffering of people in this film is staggering, but so is their resilience.
New York 2024 Review: AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, A Cock and Bull Story
Albert Serra's aim is capturing the purity.
New York 2024 Review: A TRAVELER'S NEEDS, Living Life Truthfully
The second collaboration of Hong Sangsoo and Isabelle Huppert is a delight.
New York 2024 Review: SCENARIOS, Adieu Cinema, Adieu Godard
End of Godard, End of Cinema
New York 2024 Review: DAHOMEY, On Putting Souls Back
Mati Diop documents the repatriation of stolen African treasures from France.
New York 2024 Review: In NICKEL BOYS, the POV Conceit Disappoints
RaMell Ross directed. For a subject this weighty, though, the aesthetics in 'Nickel Boys' don't work.
EUREKA Review: Swimming With Fascinating Ideas
Viggo Mortensen and Chiara Mastroianni star in Lisandro Alonso's new film.
STARVE ACRE Review: Great English Folk Horror
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in this moody new British folk horror, directed by Daniel Kokotajlo.
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS Review: Finding Acceptable Truth
Directed by Wei Shujun, the Chinese murder mystery questions what is considered truth in our complicated modern society.
Japan Cuts 2024 Preview: Treasure Trove of New and Classic Japanese Films
North America’s largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji Iwai, Sho Miyake and Shinya Tsukamoto. The program features 31 films, including 5 International Premieres, 10...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
MUSIC Reviewed: Songs in the Key of Life
Angela Schanelec's new, nearly silent film, simply titled Music, is supposedly 'freely' based on the Greek myth of Oedipus. It might be the most enigmatic offering from the esteemed German director. But its depiction of melancholy and fragility of human...
Brooklyn 2024 Review: OVID, NEW YORK, One of a Kind Cinematic Experience
Directed by Vito A. Rowlands, it's truly a unique film and one-of-a-kind viewing experience.
