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The Best 2024 Fall Film Festival Premieres
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While there’s a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to have on your radar in the coming months and...
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BFI London Review: The Brothers Quay Find Stunning Textures In Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balletic in its interweaving of aural and visual rhythms; full of the sort of trivia and esoterica that fascinated...
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First Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski
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Returning to Cannes Film Festival with her first narrative feature in eight years, Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age fable bird brought together Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and newcomer Nykiya Adams. Now set for a theatrical release from MUBI starting November 8, they’ve...
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HEATHER Trailer Premiere: Be Careful Who You Bully
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A philanderer is lured into a kinky encounter by a provocative woman, only to discover she has undergone gender reassignment and was once the boy he terrorized in high school.   Anthony Repinski's horror thriller Heather will release on digital platforms...
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NYFF Review: The Damned Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment in a Frigid Civil War Sojourn
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Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature documentary, but such gruesome images set the harsh tone for a movie imagining what it might be...
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Chicago International Film Festival Pays Tribute to Hirokazu Kore-Eda
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Links to our reviews of the six films playing at CIFF this year in a retrospective tribute to the masterful Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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Apple TV+’s “Shrinking” Really Starts Putting the Pieces Together in Second Season
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This is the year in which the Jason Segel dramedy really finds its voice, confidently balancing its comedic and emotional currents in a way that’s entertaining and moving.
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Criterion Adds Val Lewton Double Feature to the Collection
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On the work of Val Lewton, on the heels of a Criterion double feature of his work.
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Make No Promises: Virginie Efira & Arieh Worthalter Topline Kruithof’s ‘Les Braises’
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In a double Virginie Efira casting news type of day, we learn that after dropping in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, the actress will move into the arms (or away) of Arieh Worthalter (from career game-changing The Goldman Case) in Thomas...
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‘MadS’ Review: A One-Take Descent into Madness
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The film builds an all-consuming sense of dread and panic that almost sneaks up on you. The post ‘MadS’ Review: A One-Take Descent into Madness appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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