Filmmaking (and life) partners Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have made three feature films together now: 2015’s Meru, a chronicle of Chin’s ascent of the titular mountain in the Himalayas; 2019’s Free Solo, […]
Documentary film is a unique art form, in that it aims to harness the power of another genre––narrative cinema––to convey objective truths. At its best, documentary is akin to great journalism as […]
In a film I can only describe as the most A24 of all A24 movies, the Icelandic-set Lamb tells the story of an isolated sheep farm, where husband Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) […]
I spent a long time trying to figure out how to tackle a review of a film that is less a traditional James Bond movie and more a victory lap, greatest hits […]
At the beginning of the last decade, 30-year-old actor Danielle Macdonald packed up her belongings and moved from her native Australia to Los Angeles in the hopes of finding acting work that […]
In the early part of the 2010s, the world was treated to a trio of horror anthology films under the V/H/S banner (V/H/S, V/H/S/2, and V/H/S: Viral), which gave us early glimpses […]
Staying in the wheelhouse of horror films that focus on high schoolers, Netflix’s latest horror entry is There’s Someone Inside Your House, based on Stephanie Perkins’ New York Times best-selling novel and […]
In 2016’s Raw, her feature directorial debut, French filmmaker Julia Ducournau created an intense thriller in every sense of the word—intense visuals accompanied an intensely emotional story about a new veterinary school […]
One of the best parts of attending a film festival (and there are many) is finding yourself with a few unscheduled hours and no pressing plans: it’s that rare window to walk […]
Marking the return of the Welcome to the Blumhouse series of horrors films on Amazon Prime Video this week are two new films (with two more to follow next week), Bingo Hell […]
Little Girl, a 2020 documentary about a young French trans girl, would be a good introduction to what it means to feel you were born in the wrong body. It’s an exquisite […]
The best thing I can say about this sequel to 2018’s super-villain movie Venom is that Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a better movie than that sloppy, unfunny and ugly exercise in […]
