“You have to believe in the illusion, or you’ll go mad.” So says an anonymous speaker in Payal Kapadia’s glittering All We Imagine As Light. The film opens on documentary footage of Mumbai’s hustle and bustle, accompanied by voiceovers…
Director Ali Abbasi’s breakthrough came by way of Border, a singularly strange fairy tale about a troll who stumbles upon a child trafficking ring while working as a Swedish customs agent. Six years later, there’s little trace of that same…
“I think that unfortunately in this day and age, people really don’t want to see women expressing sexuality as having agency [...] I see BDSM—and any sort of consensual and safe sexual activity—as a healthy form of self-expression, that…
'Riddle of Fire' is a nostalgia-charged celebration of childhood. Director Weston Razooli says that he “included this gumbo of all my favorite things as a kid growing up in Utah.”
Alice Rohrwacher’s continued exploration of magical realism is a visual feast full of potential, but something is lacking in the film’s expression of its emotional core.
Black Box Diaries highlights that, as it currently stands, we will not find justice through pathways run by patriarchy and the valuing of the upper-class and higher-powered voices over the marginalized.
Didi doesn’t soften the blows of early adolescence in the way many coming-of-age stories tend to, which only serves to make it all the more comforting.
Daughters is essential viewing in its insistence that we sit with the pain, grief, and ongoing that countless American families sit with daily under the oppression of the modern, for-profit prison system.
'Saltburn' fails to present Oliver’s infiltration of the Catton family, and his slurping up of their blood and guts, with a ruggedness or rawness [...] 'Saltburn' wants the idea of being nasty to be enough for us.
‘Woman of the Hour’ uses the bare bones of its true crime anecdote to explore the impossible nature of constantly performing womanhood “correctly” under the inherent and constant threat of male violence.
Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer walks in stride with her preceding cinematic reputation, albeit perhaps with slightly gentler steps. Last Summer is not as fantastical or explicit as works like her Romance, nor is it as jarring and…