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All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy “Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes in Nightbitch. Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yodel’s novel is a fiery challenge of society’s...

Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a character in a world where despair has coagulated into grim apathy. Such is the case...

That Time of the Month: Halla Offers Ringside Seats to the Courts – Both On and Off In one’s timeline, it’s the pre-adulthood teenage years that ought to be a moment to learn not curb your enthusiasm. Self-expression, embracing the...

Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power in post-revolutionary Iran, where filmmakers and actors are often censored through brute force. Anything considered...

(Disem)Body Talk: Guadagnino Pays Homage to the Paradoxical Beat Pariah If Ayn Rand had dared to write a character who was a genius gay white male unable to reconcile his hedonistic tendencies and is thus thrown out of the heavenly...

The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes of Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) who firmly moved back into fiction with Tu...

Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy recuperation of her last week of life in Maria, the third in a series of...

Selected for this year’s Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale (and just last week it landed the grand public prize of the International Documentary Film...

The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo There are few directors who seem to rightly channel the comic side of Isabelle Huppert’s unique strangeness than the perennial Hong Sang-soo. Having worked together on the lovely In...

In conjunction with her new narrative feature No Address, which will be released in 2025, director Julia Verdin and co-director Stephen Wollwerth embarked on a simultaneous documentary project about homelessness across the country with Americans with No Address. Her crew...