Kicking things off with a small but enticing update, following last year’s incredible cine-memoir It’s Not Me, Leos Carax is finally prepping a 2026 shoot for his first narrative feature since Annette. While not much is known about the project,...
The film has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen. The post ‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Danny and Michael Philipou’s Soul-Sick Portrait of Grief appeared first on Slant Magazine.
Horror movies explicitly tackling grief are hardly a recent development, but it’s difficult to argue against the fact that we’ve seen this theme exploited at an increased output to less-satisfying results in the previous decade, adding unnecessary weight to even...
Burn Witch, Burn: Kowalski Nurses a Curse in Sinister Backwoods For her sophomore feature Her Will Be Done (Que ma volonté soit faite), Julia Kowalski channels Stephen King’s Carrie, bringing to mind the infamous crescendo, “And then the world exploded.”...
Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far cry from the zany dark comedy constituting the similarly named titular figure of Almodovar’s 1993...
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) Brady Corbet’s long-gestating architecture epic looks and feels as painstakingly...
When he was selected for the prestigious competition section this past April, Paris-born Spanish of Galician background filmmaker Óliver Laxe achieved a remarkable feat of having all four of his films in all sections of Cannes. His first three films...
Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits with noir and crime element trimmings, the French-German filmmaker saw his second and third features films land in the Palme d’Or competition back with With a Friend Like Harry… (2000) and...
A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone “The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish.” Aleksandr Kayadonvsky’s line from Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi classic Stalker (1979) comes to mind when viewing Sirat, the fourth and arguably most accessible...