In Equals, Silas (Nicholas Hoult) and Nia (Kristen Stewart) live harmoniously in a future society where emotions have been neutralized for the good of the community. Those who do accidentally feel something have “caught the bug” and are treated medic …Read more

Women Who Kill, from The Slope creator Ingrid Jungermann, manages to be equal parts relationship drama, a droll look at the Park Slope lesbian community, and a nerve-jangling thriller. Jungermann stars as Morgan, who avoids strife and danger in her o …Read more

Adult Life Skills Anna (Jodie Whittaker) steals away into her mother’s house to fetch her laundry, still wet, and hurriedly microwaves her bra. That’s a new one for the books. There are other original surprises in Adult Life Skills, the debut feature …Read more

Not many films manage to make a man having a job interview over Skype compelling, but Stephane Brize proves it can be not only compelling but also heartbreaking in his latest film, The Measure of a Man. In Brize’s current offering we meet Thierry, a …Read more

In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, no one spends a lot of energy wondering how or why Gregor Samsa became a giant cockroach. Everyone — reader included — quickly accepts this matter-of-fact situation and works with the ensuing consequences. The beauty o …Read more

Marvelously clever from the onset, director Kadri Kõusaar’s Mother soundtrack immediately clues us in with the dissonant tones perched against the harmonies. Something’s fishy in this unassuming, pretty house situated in this quaint little Estonian t …Read more

Performance, the idea that artifice can reveal deeper truths, is a keystone of art. But what’s more revealing, a “good” performance or a “bad” one? Is there any inherent, fixed core of personality at the heart of an individual or are we all the sum o …Read more

When Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton visited Jordan last year, it was probably the first time many Americans learned about the Syrian refugee crisis. His reporting led actor Ed Norton to fundraise over $460,000 to aid the Syrian refug …Read more

The Petrobras scandal and the call for President Dilma Rousseff to resign, has put Brazil at the center of the biggest political controversy of 2016. With thousands of Brazilians taking to the streets on a daily basis to demand changes in the politic …Read more

Jeremy Saulnier burst onto the scene in 2013 with his gritty small-scale revenge tale, Blue Ruin. Staying true to that tone and magnifying it ten-fold, his follow up Green Room is an innovative and shocking chronicle of a young punk rock band’s unfor …Read more