Matthew Yeager’s feature debut, Valedictorian, is a spare, lyrical film about the passage of time and what it means, and costs, to truly engage with our own lives. The first half of the film simply follows Ben (Brian Dell), a quiet, distant Brooklyni …Read more

In the actual reality of the real world, Jamie Block is a New York-based financial advisor by day and anti-folk musician by night. He even released an album on Capitol records back in 1998. Now he is trying to make a comeback. Enter Onur Tukel, an ea …Read more

Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s God Bless the Child is a thing of rare beauty and creative courage. Sensitively written and tenderly shot by Machoian, using only natural light, God Bless follows five siblings as they spend an idle summer’s d …Read more

With Queen of Earth, Alex Ross Perry has stripped away much of the comedy that was infused in his previous work to craft the darkest film in his young filmography. Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) is devastated when her father, a very successful artist, pa …Read more

A lack of funds renders newly minted postgrad Dora (Eden Brolin) flightless, dashing her dreams of traveling to South America. Elizabeth Bishop she won’t be, but a few lines of introspection and its accompanying doodles point towards that direction ( …Read more

Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas is one of the greatest cinematic rides ever made. It’s the Italian-American gangster mythos edited together with rapid-fire precision and the elegance of a ballroom dance. The film is currently celebrating its 25th annive …Read more

Just like the lives of its characters, Infinitely Polar Bear is a triumphant balancing act. It’s a period piece that feels utterly contemporary. It handles issues such as living with mental illness, mixed-race families, and female breadwinners, but i …Read more

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon began his career as a personal assistant to the likes of directors Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and based upon his sophomore directorial effort, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, it looks like he was tak …Read more

In a short but impressive career, Sara Serraiocco has taken Italian cinema by storm, currently starring as a determined synchronized swimmer faced with tragedy in the coming-of-age drama Chlorine. Since making her on-screen debut in 2013 as a blind g …Read more

Kyle Rideout’s Eadweard is a painstakingly beautiful portrait of Eadweard Muybridge (Michael Eklund); an early pioneer of photography and inadvertent grandfather of cinema. Fittingly, Tony Mirza’s cinematography is exquisite and precise from the firs …Read more