·      Films That Got Away I usually include a worst-of list before getting to my favorites, but this year I figured it’d be a better use...

Michael Mann’s career has been filled with stylish, exciting dives into gender roles and the dangers of ambition; maybe that’s why this...

Despite the numbing wave of biopics we’ve seen recently, I still can’t help but find them kind of fascinating. It’s so interesting to see...

I was particularly excited to see Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure, because (even though I never mention...

Just a few weeks ago, protests calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine broke out all over the US. Shopping malls were shut...

Hayao Miyazaki’s newest movie is the stuff of dreams. Billed in English as The Boy and the Heron, this fantasy epic remained in obscurity...

Cormac McCarthy once wrote that God “speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things;” and while watching Hlynur Pálmason’s newest film,...

Almost seven decades have passed since Ishirō Honda’s radioactive dinosaur first graced screens across the world. Since then, it’s had...

Cinema has always been a medium of ghosts. Each second that flicks by onscreen is a time capsule confronting us with who we were, making...

Nicki Micheaux’s latest offering sets us barely a year after the Rodney King uprising sparked nationwide conversations about police...

Nicki Micheaux’s A Summer of Violence has been gaining a ton of buzz as it makes the festival circuit, and for good reason. Along with...

Alexander Payne’s newest offering is a subtle, intimate triumph. Set in 1970, it follows a curmudgeonly educator who stays on campus over...

As soon as I saw the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s newest film, I knew it was going to be wildly different from last year’s Elvis-praising...

If you’ve read my review, you know I loved this movie; so I couldn’t have been more excited to speak with the director of In Tow, Sharon...

As you could probably tell from my discussion with the director and co-stars, I loved this film. Tenderly told and gorgeously shot,...

This is the first short film I’ve ever reviewed for this blog, which shows just how much I enjoyed it. Sharon Arteaga’s newest offering...

Argentine filmmaker Martín Rejtman is back for the first time in nearly half a decade with a hilarious new offering. Centered around a...

The Austin Film Festival starts this weekend; and making its world premiere is perhaps one of my favorite movies released this year,...

I really wanted to like Bertrand Bonello’s new sci-fi romance, even naming it one of my most anticipated 2023 movies. It’s based on Henry...

Martin Scorsese’s newest film is easily one of his best, which is a big statement when talking about the guy who made Goodfellas (1990),...