Films about the mafia have become extremely common, so it’s rather refreshing to watch a film like Black Souls which doesn’t try to either glamorize or condemn mobsters, but instead focuses on creating mood and letting audiences to do their own think …Read more
Fashion fans will immediately get sucked into Frédéric Tcheng’s Dior and I. For everyone else who doesn’t keep up with the absurdly decadent fashion culture, watch this film for a well-shot directorial effort and an inside look at the debut haute cou …Read more
Six years after it first appeared at the Berlin International Film Festival, Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly is finally opening theatrically in America. The movie intriguingly opens like any archetypal cabin in the woods-style film would: with a group of …Read more
The Harvest is John McNaughton’s first film in nearly 15 years. That’s a big leap, pushing two decades, yet McNaughton does not seem to have missed a beat. The film contains elements of horror, fantasy and psychological thrillers but is paced so smoo …Read more
Novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland makes a confident directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sleek, intelligent sci-fi thriller that explores the ramifications of artificial intelligence with far more depth and moral questioning than any film before …Read more
In director Christoph Hochhäusler’s thriller The Lies of the Victors, two investigative journalists try to unravel a conspiracy at the heart of Germany’s military-industrial complex. Compared to Hochhäusler’s previous films, The Lies of the Victors i …Read more
Most Christmas films fixate on a kind of frantic joyousness that’s foreign to most people’s real experience of the holiday. Far more authentic is the reserved melancholy that director Charles Poekel thoroughly explores in Christmas, Again. The film c …Read more
What does it take to become a man? For filmmaker David Sampliner, this became a question that haunted him after one of his close friends proclaimed that he was “afraid of his own masculinity”, having grown up in a home with a surgeon father, and a br …Read more
Jasna Fritzi Bauer stars as a fifteen-year-old trying to navigate the perilous waters of adolescence in the surprisingly heartwarming, coming-of-age comedy About a Girl. Charleen (Bauer) finds solace in the images of musical geniuses who died young, …Read more
The first few years of any filmmaker’s career are exciting to watch unfold, it’s the time where a distinct style and voice has yet to be solidified, where perhaps the filmmaker is still searching for their brand. With the announcement of Who Am I-No …Read more
