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Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an Entirely New Space for the Coming-of-Age Genre First influencer, then actor, now filmmaker—the pipeline is well and truly in overdrive with his masterful directorial debut, Club Kid. Known for his brash,...

The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the Dots “Dark love is the love that is never named,” wrote Federico Garcia Lorca in Sonnets of Dark Love whose unfinished manuscript of The Black Ball is the connective tissue between...

A Gentle Thaw: Haigh’s Measured Drama is Glacial but Rewarding A distinctly snowy spin on a coming-of-age yarn, Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter uses a far more introspective and quiet style to offer a path towards the future for its...

Mismanaged Masculinity: Walters’ Gritty Debut Lacks Impactful Style Over Its Solid Substance After himself leading the long running Channel 4 turned Netflix smash hit Top Boy showcasing the toxic masculinity of London gang culture, actor-turned-director Ashley Walters treads similar territory...

The End of The World as we Know it: Guadagnino Creates a Thrilling Portrait of the Losers who Will Kill us All It’s all over the news, foisted upon your social media and even creeping into our mediums of creativity....

An Open and Shut Case: Bird’s Passion Project Feels 30 Years Too Late A sci-fi, detective story ruminating in the mind of Pixar legend Brad Bird for close to three decades, Ray Gunn, finally brought to fruition by Skydance Animation...

A Heavy Toll: Shirai’s Artful Take on the Body Shattering Sumo Tradition Honors the Form Gaining access to Japan’s most traditional and one of their most gruelling sports, Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing flirts with revolutionary documentary ideas surrounding the age-old...

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers a quietly commanding performance as Marie-Lou, the director of a French care home who struggles to introduce a more humane philosophy of eldercare while forming an unexpected bond with Mari (Tao...

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with Salón de belleza, a very, loose adaptation of Mario Bellatin’s 1994 novella that transforms a beauty salon into a refuge for people dying from an unnamed illness. Rather than directly transpose...

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven to logical extremes in Fjord, Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s first foray outside of his native country, named for the deep, underwater valleys formed by glaciers common to the geography of...