It’s so nice to see something uniting the entire world, especially when that thing is a hatred for artificial intelligence. Per Aspera Ad Astra is a Chinese kids’ movie, released for the lunar new year, with some very big Chinese stars at its core, all about the importance of our …
The instructions are simple: Do not overlook any anomalies. If you find an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you do not find any anomalies, do not turn back. Go out from Exit 8. The instructions hang on the wall, where all who enter the switchback tunnels of this particular subway …
Who’d be young? With your whole life ahead of you and no sense of who you’re truly are, you live in anticipation of a brilliant future that will obviously come to pass somehow. On the other hand, who’d be old? Either you had your chance and it didn’t work out, …
The main takeaway from Skiff is that it is an unusually kind portrait of a family. It’s a picture of the time when the children are in their late teens and can largely take care of themselves. They have jobs, can transport themselves around town, and will shortly be leaving …
Based on James McBride’s award-winning novel, the 2020 Showtime miniseries The Good Lord Bird takes an uproariously irreverent approach to some of the most tumultuous times in United States history – namely, militant abolitionist John Brown and his 1859 raid on the US military armoury at Harper’s Ferry, events that …
A very pretty singer and an extremely handsome actor best known for television star in a romcom directed by someone with a solid career in light entertainment. There is some concern expressed as to whether the movie could be a success because the director is a woman and the stars …
Imagine if you could be a character in your favorite movie franchise? Rub elbows with Spiderman, share a meal with Frodo and Sam, lead a revolution with Katniss, date a Cullen. That’s the premise behind Thomas Elrod’s debut novel, The Franchise. But here’s the kicker, you won’t just be acting …
Since Seized showed at the Sundance Film Festival, news has dropped about the dismantling of the Washington Post by its billionaire owner. The ability of a free and fair press to hold power to account is something that it seems the seat of American government is about to lose, probably …
Neo-noir Americana gets a decidedly 21st-century update in The Lowdown, showrunner Sterlin Harjo’s latest series released at the end of 2025 and now streaming on Hulu / Disney+. Like the best of the classic noirs, the anxieties of our time might be bubbling away under the surface, but this is …
It’s been a while since a movie has been so good at textures, both visual and aural. In Satisfaction you get an extremely clear sense of the sensations the characters are experiencing and the world through which they are moving. The plot in itself is much less pleasant, as it’s …
Malcolm in the Middle ran right while I was in the midst of my baby-having years. I had four kids from 1998-2003 (no twins!), and watching Hal and Lois navigate their life helped me feel a little less crazy with my own household. Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair …
On paper Low Rider sounds like fun: a grieving Londoner goes on a road trip across South Africa in order to connect with her father. Unfortunately Low Rider manages to take this solid concept and make it as dull and cliched as possible. People don’t talk with each other, but …
A lot of people are missing the point of The Bride! because they don’t want to consider the price paid for our entertainment. This is possibly because, in service to its original concept, this barnstorming horror movie contains only two original ideas not directly lifted from other films. The first …
Catie has always felt at peace in her forest. The giant redwoods that surround the Heights, her eclectic home in Northern California. Here, she’s surrounded by nature rather than people. Catie knows that nature can be unfair, but at least she can understand it, something she can’t say about humans. …
The Mexican director Nicolás Pereda has proven himself as one of the most prominent filmmakers of the new generation. In the last three years, he released three films. Lázaro de Noche premiered at the 2024 FIDMarseille, and Cobre was also a world premiere at the French experimental film event in …
The King’s Warden was released in February 2026 and has already become one of the most successful movies in Korean history. That’s possibly because it tells a story already known to most Korean schoolchildren, like how American kids know about George Washington and the cherry tree. A boy king in …
It’s 2014 and Nadia (Monia Chokri) and Céline (Ella Rumpf) were recently legally able to get married in France. Hooray! And anyone who’s ever heard a playground chant knows what comes after love and marriage. Nadia is pregnant thanks to IVF and a Danish sperm donor, but Céline will have …
To paraphrase a great actor, we need art. We live in a world where everything is increasingly financialized, and things are often valued only by what they can return to our pockets, but this fixation on the monetary ignores the richness of our souls and hinders our processing of difficult …
It makes no sense when a movie spoils itself through its own marketing. The central relationship in Washed Up has a twist that you probably haven’t been able to avoid! This is a giant mistake, because most of the humour and a great deal of the charm comes in how …
If you think Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo’s aesthetics will get more refined after his films have, over the years, preferred a more digitized (read: pixelated, desaturated, out-of-focus) aesthetic, think again! His latest film, within a corpus of slow cinema experiments, What Does That Nature Say to You, contains many of …