Filmmaker Lina Soualem and her mother Hiam Abbass discuss their documentary about family lineage and leaving Palestine.…
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We’re waking up in our pink glossy sheets with irrepressible thoughts of death, we’re hearing about catastrophes of our own creation, and we’re drowning in ideals and moral purity testing and discourse. …
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This bloody sex comedy is somehow still a salve to the modern queer comedy.…
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The latest season takes evangelical racketeering out at the knees with a larger-than-life, ridiculous, nasty satirical bite. …
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The final season of the dark comedy asks heavy moral questions and grapples with big themes, but also cares deeply about the notion of humanity in even extreme contexts. …
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The third installment in the ‘Magic Mike’ trilogy tries to replace the magically sexy strippers of the earlier films with what it considers “real” dancers, but the attempts to “elevate” the story to “serious cinema” fails to replicate any of the earlier…
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‘Tár’ doesn’t perfectly manage its attempt to grasp the current cultural shift in how we deal with artists who abuse their power, but it’s sharper than a lot of other attempts. …
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Once we’ve settled into its beautiful world, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ feels a bit like a slog through every possible sickly sweet theme that can be crammed into it.…
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Is 'EEAAO' a marker of a massive shift in cinema, or a reprieve from how much drivel we are being offered in the rest of current cinematic theatrical landscape?…
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This film following the life of an idealistic German soldier during World War I is as bleak as can be, just like the war. …
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