Brett Haley's fourth feature is an unassuming indie drama with some memorable music and surprising emotional depth.…
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The newest film from the celebrated French auteur, Claire Denis, is a minor work, but finishes strong.…
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Advertisements Carol encapsulates what we shouldn’t be able to encapsulate. The dull lifelessness of longing for someone, and the painful but hopeful process of someone’s meaning growing in your life. It puts all those tangled up, heart-bursting-out-your-chest feelings into a form that…
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Morgan Neville's documentary is a charming and uplifting, if slight and superficial, portrait of a beloved television figure.…
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Advertisements On the 7th of June, documentary lovers descended on Sheffield’s city center for six days of films and fun in the sun. This year the festival opened itself up to the virtual reality boom and many other modern interpretations of storytelling.…
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Advertisements A decidedly less depressing melodrama feature from Makoto Shinkai, the famed director of Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru (5 Centimeters per Second, 2007) and Koto no ha no Niwa (The Garden of Words, 2013), Kimi no Na Wa. (Your Name., 2016) looks at…
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Advertisements The Disaster Artist hits Amazon Prime this month so I sat down to watch arguably the most critically acclaimed film that I missed last year. Based on the book of the same name, the A24 product chronicles the making of the…
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Advertisements Hotel Artemis starts off as a sort of near-future spin-off of John Wick, focusing on its own set of rules detached from the everyday life that we experience. It seeks satisfaction in that discrepancy, finding moments of intrigue in how that ruleset…
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