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ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Review: Silence Cannot Be Endured
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It's hard to imagine what any of us would do, if we were driving along a quite road and came across a dead body, let alone the body of a member of our family. For Shula (Susan Chardy), on her...
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Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me, Departing Shakespeare, and Hong Sangsoo’s Constant Reinvention
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“Focus the text” commands a translation app pop-up at the mid-point of Matías Piñeiro’s new experimental essay film You Burn Me. It’s a mantra that the Argentinian filmmaker has taken to heart. Using Sea Foam, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s...
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Fleur Fortuné on “The Assessment”
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An interview with the director of the Elizabeth Olsen-led sci-fi drama.
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Looking Back: Highlighting Some Great Pieces by Our Female Critics
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Some great reviews and articles by our female critics.
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The Antidote for Fear: Natalie Morales on “My Dead Friend Zoe”
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An interview with the star of the great "My Dead Friend Zoe."
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A Look at the Rich Tapestry of Films Coming from South Africa
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A look at great South African films, all available on Netflix.
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‘Mickey 17’ Review: Bong Joon-ho’s Timely and Entertaining Anti-Capitalist Satire
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Robert Pattinson clearly relishes leaning into bug-eyed lunacy as much as he does pathos. The post ‘Mickey 17’ Review: Bong Joon-ho’s Timely and Entertaining Anti-Capitalist Satire appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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X-Rated Trailer for Bruce LaBruce’s The Visitor Offers Up an Explicit Game of Seduction
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After making a splash with his uncompromising incest drama Saint-Narcisse, underground Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce returned to Berlinale last year with The Visitor, his explicit take on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema. Ahead of a release from Circle Collective starting this...
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Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed French Thriller The Temple Woods Gang, Coming to NYC on March 12
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Named one of the 10 best films of Cahiers du Cinéma back in 2023, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s crime thriller The Temple Woods Gang is finally getting a proper U.S. release later this year from Several Futures. However, New York City audiences...
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The Rule of Jenny Pen Review: John Lithgow Torments Geoffrey Rush in Depraved Psychological Horror
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Three decades on from Brian De Palma’s gleefully unhinged psychological thriller Raising Cain, John Lithgow has once again found a cinematic role to showcase his panache for exuding deranged evil. New Zealand director James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen,...
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