'Children of the Sea' soars when the narrative is minimal and the outlandish, animation driven storytelling takes center stage.…
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Precise and innovative, Gints Zilbalodis' feature debut is a tour de force that marks him as a talent to watch.…
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In the five years since its debut, Patrick McHale’s 10-episode miniseries, Over the Garden Wall, proven to be one of the most enduring depictions of life in the 21st century, grappling with an unclear future.…
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Downton Abbey is less of a triumphant victory lap and more of a gentle stroll, a pleasant conversation of a film, reassuring you that it’s ok that things finish as long as you never forget the value they had. For those diehard…
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"Weathering With You" operates in the realms of high melodrama, where feelings dictate the story and love always triumphs.…
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Lucio Castro’s directorial debut is a powerfully woven gay romance and defined by its modernity. The story Castro chooses to tell could only exist in 2019.…
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Clouds of Sils Maria forms an ultimate thesis of Assayas as a filmmaker and an outward-looking critique of the culture. It proposes that the author is a phoenix, destined to die and be reborn in the cycle of cultural evaluation and re-evaluation.…
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Not getting in the robot is why audiences dislike Shinji, but it's also what makes him human.…
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After We Leave is unassuming at first, but builds to a finish that will stay with you for a long time to come.…
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Last Sunrise threatens to be pointed and timely, but it ends up feeling like most of the discourse on energy and climate change: uncommitted and directionless.…
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