Green Border
By Kevin Filipski June 21, 2024
A border crisis is the subject of Agnieszka Holland’s incendiary new film, which forcefully wears its anger on its sleeve.
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This allegory takes some of the worst experiences of puberty to become, at times, a genuinely bewildering horror movie.
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A small and subtle triumph of acting. The characters are all drawn with empathy and are often surprising.
Robot Dreams
By Guillermo Lopez Meza June 7, 2024
Director Pablo Berger has crafted a fantastical tale of great visual (and sonic) inventiveness that is as gorgeous to look at as it is emotionally bittersweet.
Hit Man
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Richard Linklater’s latest is a lot of things at once, and each one of them is excellent.
Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
By Jeffery Berg May 30, 2024
The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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The set pieces, performances, and visuals are here to remind you that director George Miller exists in an action movie class of his own.
The Last Stop in Yuma County
By Paul Weissman May 11, 2024
From a simple premise, writer/director Francis Galluppi wrings maximum suspense.
I Saw the TV Glow
By Jeffery Berg May 2, 2024
There is a lot to unpack and ruminate over in Jane Schoenbrun’s moody and extraordinarily layered film, where abstract ideas are made tangible.