As much as Yang Chao’s film Crosscurrent has the look of a beautiful mystery, its quietness remains quiet and unnoticed and doesn’t manage to lead anywhere.
In this week’s Queerly Ever After, Amanda Jane Stern considers the 1997 film All Over Me, a coming-of-age story about the relationship between two girls.
With an intriguing story and a craftsmanship in filmmaking, The Wild Goose Lake is a ride you want to be on, holding on to you until the very end.
The potential is there for Batwoman to soar, but it’s going to need some serious re-working before it can get its feet firmly off the ground and into Gotham City.
The Bad Boys unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
Bong Joon-ho has put together an intricate, multi-layered portrait of inequality and class. At the same time, he keeps the experience fun and intoxicating.
In this week’s Video Dispatches, Shawn Glinis covers home video releases of Wild in the Country (1961), The Ear (1970) and Killer Crocodile (1989).
With Portrait of a Lady on Fire, writer-director Cèline Sciamma has created something extremely precious. Read our coverage from NYFF 2019.
Blood Quantum manages to be creative, while somehow also maintaining the zombie apocalypse genre’s known sensibilities.
Michel Ocelot has always been one to apply the breadth of his creativity towards an easy narrative, but only with Delili does it prove to be something of a barrier to what can be more fulfilling.
Low Tide is a tactile, explosive study of masculinity, an exploration of what boys do, what makes them do it, and how they need to learn to stick up to each other.
Fresh from LFF, the latest Film Inquiry festival dispatch features reviews of Color Out of Space, Saint Maud, Synchronic and more.
Little Monsters is a horror comedy with no scares, and a comic potential that runs out of steam by the time the premise kicks in.
Dolemite is my Name manages to be a loving ode to Blaxploitation and Black independent filmmaking while still being one of the funniest films of the year so far.
The Neglected Politicism of Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO STORY
Released just one year after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Tokyo Story obliquely reflects on the changes that came over the country.