Hammer to Nail

Following their main slate lineup announcement last week, the Cannes Film Festival has now announced the lineups for its 2024 Directors’ Fortnight, Critics Week, and ACID Lineups. Notable standouts include India Donaldson’s Sundance darling Good One (read our ND/NF review),...

Spring just might be the season for electrifying anti-love stories with Love Lies Bleeding and Challengers. Joining the frey might be writer-director Sophie Dupuis’ queer-drag romance Solo – a rare portrait of dealing with toxic relationships while finding oneself. Set...

(New Directors/New Films runs from April 3 – 14 at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s review of Omen. It opens in select theaters Friday, April 12 from Utopia.) Belgian-Congolese...

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the first slate of films for its 77th edition across many sections, from the Competition to Un Certain Regard. It will be held from May 14 through 25. Ahead of the announcement, a few...

Documentary filmmaking duo Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross know how to capture up close and personal the lives of youth in modern rural America. Following a fruitful festival run that took them from Venice to SXSW to the brand...

“You’re a f***ing movie star.” Mia Goth’s Maxine is back to fulfill her dreams of fame in the seedy underbelly of 1980s Hollywood. Writer-director Ti West’s MaXXXine is set to conclude his X slasher trilogy following 2022’s X and Pearl,...

Writer/director Iram Parveen Bilal follows up her engaging 2020 I’ll Meet You There with Wakhri, which just played SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it). Inspired by the life of the late Pakistani social-media influencer Qandeel Baloch, this aesthetically assured and...

Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many prolific filmmakers today, including Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Christopher Nolan – just to name a...

Anyone who enjoys a contemporary road trip film should be on the lookout for Lost Soulz. Written and directed by Katherine Propper in her directorial debut, it premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival where it was runner-up for the...

We never seem to be running short these days of a Quentin Dupieux comedy. The director’s first of two new movies from last year, Yannick, will arrive stateside on MUBI April 5. The official trailer has just been released by...