A slippery character study and staggering sensory experience, Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents was one of my favorite discoveries of last year’s New York Film Festival. It opens on an Argentinian designer named Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola), who survives a...
Rhea Seehorn is an actress best known for her collaborations with Vince Gilligan. While she has had guest roles in shows like “Veep” and “The Twilight Zone,” she first came into prominence for her instantly iconic turn as Kim Wexler...
It starts as a gag. Pepa (Núria Prims) rings to apologize to her mother and believes it is she who picks up the phone. Her teenage daughter Cata (Zoe Stein) plays along, pretending to answer as she assumes her grandmother...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29. The new documentary With Hasan in Gaza––a poignant, meditative portrait of a city now fighting for its life––works as...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 29. “Will your oceans be made of our glaciers?” Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason asks in the narration that plays...
“Pluribus” is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan for Apple TV. Set and filmed primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who finds herself isolated after an alien virus...
THE STORY – In 2001, Franny, a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, arrives in the sleepy desert town of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Far from home, Franny struggles through awkward school days, stifling heat, and restless nights until she meets Elliott,...
THE STORY – During a Paris rebellion, young Louis XIV must be hidden and is secretly replaced at court by a look-alike. Entrusted to the musketeer-poet Cyrano de Bergerac, Louis is sheltered within Madeleine’s traveling theater troupe, where the actor and...