A certain reputation always surrounds someone with an Oscar-winning film amongst their credits. Thus, expectations are high for the feature debut of Piero Messina, the man who worked as assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty. The …Read more
Blood, belly buttons, umbilical chords and milk – in many forms – run through Maya Vitkova’s striking feature debut Viktoria, alongside archival footage charting the rise and fall of communism in Europe, and plenty of 80s house plants.These corporeal …Read more
From April 22 to May 01, the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall, a series which intends to prove that queer cinema existed before the LGBT liberation of the late 60s. Perhaps …Read more
Perhaps the greatest merit of Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is its lack of attempt to ever really explain itself, with regards both to its magic and its morality. In terms of its magic, when it occurs, which it does with great frequency, it occurs s …Read more
The way in which our society mistreats the elderly has inspired some of the great masterworks of the twentieth century – plays like Death of a Salesman, films like Tokyo Story – which present us with a bittersweet portrait of how our desire for endle …Read more
The Ticket The Ticket, a thought-provoking look at one of the central tensions of modern life, is an unassuming film whose moral and spiritual elements simmer underneath the action in the first half before rising to the surface in the affecting concl …Read more
Praise for the New Zealand comedy is long overdue. Sometimes sour, a touch twee and so thoroughly deadpan is the humor that you might marvel whether it is intentional or not. Filmmaker Taika Waititi is the force behind What We Do in the Shadows (2014 …Read more
High-Rise immediately declares its intention to shock, showing a bloodstained Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) spit roasting a dog and living a feral existence in his newly deluxe modern tower block. Director Ben Wheatley’s film based on the 1975 no …Read more
Don’t Think Twice Don’t Think Twice, Mike Birbiglia’s second feature film, stands taller than his previous feature, a slender work. Deeply personal and borne of his off-Broadway play and book, Sleep Walk With Me overextended its slight premise, the l …Read more
*Reviews will be added as embargoes are lifted. Actor Adult Life Skills After Spring Always Shine Bad Rap Detour Don’t Think Twice Equals The Family Fang The Fixer High-Rise Hunt for the Wilderpeople Lavender Mother Nerdland Parents The Ticket Women …Read more
