Slamdance 2024: Dosh
Slamdance 2024: DOSH

Screening at Slamdance, the short film DOSH focuses on family struggles through the lens of a specific culture and mental health taboos within.

TRAINSPOTTING Criterion Review: Danny Boyle's '90s Masterpiece, Restored In 4K
TRAINSPOTTING Criterion Review: Danny Boyle’s ’90s Masterpiece, Restored In 4K

Criterion’s new 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray is the best Trainspotting has ever looked and sounded on home video format and is the definitive way of viewing.

Slamdance 2024: PU EKAW TNOD & Legend of El Cucuy
Slamdance 2024: PU EKAW TNOD

With PU EKAW TNOD, we’re able to see such vision exploring the idea of being the viewer and the viewed, and it’s just as creepy as you think.

Slamdance Film Festival 2024: Interview with writer/director Omar S. Kamara for AFRICAN GIANTS
Slamdance Film Festival 2024: Interview with writer/director Omar S. Kamara for AFRICAN GIANTS

Film Inquiry spoke with writer/director Omar S. Kamara for his film African Giants!

DAD JOKES : A Spicy Take On The Never Built Father-Daughter Relationship
DAD JOKES : A Spicy Take On The Never Built Father-Daughter Relationship

Dad Jokes leaves us excited for Welch’s future in comedy, and the potential for a new chapter in her comedic journey.

I.S.S.: A Sturdy Space Thriller
I.S.S.: A Sturdy Space Thriller

I.S.S. is a serviceable space thriller, one that remains light on ideas but sticks to sturdy tropes.

APOLONIA, APOLONIA: Portrait Of An Artist By A Filmmaker
APOLONIA, APOLONIA: Portrait Of An Artist By A Filmmaker

Apolonia Apolonia manages to paint a fairly engaging portrait of an artist discovering the intimate balance between success and her freedoms as an artist.

NIGHT SWIM: Attack Of The Killer Pool
NIGHT SWIM: Attack Of The Killer Pool

While those looking for genuine chills should certainly seek them elsewhere, this movie is batting at a surprisingly high level.

ANYONE BUT YOU: Good-Old-Fashioned Junk Food

Anyone But You is a light, self-aware piece of entertainment that isn’t afraid of being silly.

SPACKED OUT: Teenage Wasteland

No films better symbolize the livewire energy of this era in Hong Kong filmmaking than those focused on the youth of the region, such as Spacked Out.

INSHALLAH A BOY: A Woman In Trouble

The intense, empathetic storytelling of Inshallah A Boy will keep you emotionally invested up until the very last frame.

HOUSEHOLD SAINTS: The Resurrection Of An Independent Classic
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS: The Resurrection Of An Independent Classic

Household Saints is a strange yet satisfying brew of family drama and spiritual contemplation that deserves the broader audience it has been denied.

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM: Shallow Splash Of A Superhero Sequel
AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM: Shallow Splash Of A Superhero Sequel

Despite Aquaman’s need to make one last cannonball for the DCEU, he only makes a mild splash in a mostly empty pool.

DIE HARD: 35 Years Of Christmas Action
DIE HARD: 35 Years Of Christmas Action

Die Hard is not a film that just occurs during the holiday season, but rather because of it.

A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION: Coupling and Capitalism, Edward Yang-Style
A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION: Coupling and Capitalism, Edward Yang-Style

“A Confucian Confusion” is quintessentially Yang, a needle-sharp satire of life in a city increasingly in the thrall of capitalism.