The film starkly reveals the toll propaganda takes on everyday individuals and communities.
Cameron’s Fire and Ash is effectively a three-hour-plus series of climaxes.
Park and Lee discuss the film’s mordant satire about the cutthroat nature of capitalism.
Arnett and Dern discuss why they resisted intellectualizing their characters during shooting.
Like the worst of Neil Diamond’s songs, the film is desperate to arouse our emotions.
William Golding’s influence is felt in the film’s exploration of teenage social hierarchy.
The comparisons to Paul Greengrass’s queasily forensic docudramas make themselves.
These films attest to the range of human expression that’s vital to understanding the context of the age we live in.
Bi discusses how he translated his narrative ideas into a sensory dimension.
Ella McCay seeks to project optimism in a time of unrelenting divisiveness.
On paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.
Fuller’s film is essentially a dark fantasy spin on Léon: The Professional.
Charlie Ahearn’s film is a time capsule of early-’80s hip-hop culture and satire on class collision.
Initially resembling a dark psychological drama, the film increasingly settles into a gentler tone.
Stewart’s feature-length directorial debut is a shattered portrait of female pain and power.
Safdie’s rapturously reprises a siren song that transcends any single American era.
Sorrentino discusses why it was important to reflect an ideal version of politics in his film.
The film’s emphasis is on the spectacle of protest, rather than its organization.
The film sees the intensity of moral strictures as giving meaning to the transgression of them.
This adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is as insubstantial as candy floss.
This curatorial eye felt like a particularly precious gift this year