With an incisive understanding of character, believably naturalistic acting, and lengthy scenes that don’t feel so much stretched out as…
Early in Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30…
What it lacks in artfulness, Wish Me Away makes up for in emotive force. Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf’s documentary…
Its opening shots replete with heavily fetishized close-ups of kids taking hits off joints and its dialogue peppered with lines…
Michael Brandt’s post–Cold War spy film is grade-B hokum, but it’s not without its occasional generic thrills. Apparently more adept…
Brimming over with outrage not so much at the eponymous Ponzi schemer as at the government body that failed to…
An award winner at Rotterdam way back in 2005, Mercedes Álvarez’s The Sky Turns, a film that aims to both…
Spanning two decades of his nation’s fraught history and invoking the legacy of at least three more, Haile Gerima’s Teza…
The opening scenes of Home—a nighttime game of street hockey, a bathing session that turns into a five-way splash fight—establish…
“Colonialism is always part of the expansion of capitalism,” opines Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in Philippe Diaz’s devastating,…
