Netflix’s ‘Exhibit A’ Will Change How You Experience True Crime
There are few true crime fans who don’t swoon at a good forensic science sequence in a documentary or podcast. It’s like a secret language that investigators speak, and hearing it opens up a new world...
View ArticleAri Aster Has Mastered The Inciting Incident
With his first two films, Ari Aster displays a distinctive style. Hereditary and Midsommar are weird, gruesome, and inventive films that show he isn’t afraid to take the time to build to horrific...
View Article‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Review: Now With More Institutional Cynicism
It’s been a long wait for the followup to one of the best crime dramas of the decade, but Mindhunter‘s second season is finally here. Details about this season were sparse, and once you watch you’ll...
View Article‘Young Ahmed’ Review: A Dark Look at Impressionable Adolescence
The Dardenne brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc are known for their emotional slice-of-Belgian-life dramas, but none of their work can prepare you for gut-punch that is Young Ahmed. Their latest film tells a...
View ArticleHow ‘The Deuce’ Season 3 Sets the Tone of the ’80s with Music
The days of disco are over in The Deuce‘s final season on HBO, but the record still has a few more spins before it’s done. Skipping ahead to the 1980s, the show aims to tackle a lot in its last season,...
View Article‘I Was At Home, But…’ Review: An Expressionless Attempt at Stoicism
Angela Schanelec‘s latest film I Was At Home, But… promises a mysterious family drama that sounds like an intriguing story. A 13-year-old boy returns home from wandering in the woods for a week to a...
View Article‘A Girl Missing’ Review: More Confusing Than Mysterious
The story of a young girl going missing is not new, but it’s a reliable source of mystery and suspense. Koji Fukada‘s newest film A Girl Missing uses the familiar child-gone-missing story to launch the...
View Article‘Martin Eden’ Review: Poetic Mastery and an Enigmatic Performance
Few films can stand on the main character’s name as the title, but Martin Eden is such an enigmatic, enchanting human being that he belongs in the title of Pietro Marcello‘s latest film. Martin Eden...
View Article‘Marriage Story’ Review: A Dive Between the Dichotomies of Love and Heartbreak
If you thought director/writer Noah Baumbach perfectly depicted a family amidst divorce with The Squid and the Whale, his latest film Marriage Story will prove he was only scratching the surface until...
View ArticleKelly Reichardt and ‘First Cow’ Cast Talk the Movie’s Tender Moments at NYFF...
Kelly Reichardt‘s First Cow is one of the most heartwarming films on the festival circuit this year. On its own, it speaks about ownership and what success means to different people, but Reichardt and...
View ArticleThe Burden of Truth in ‘Dark Waters’
Investigative dramas can be a great gateway for audiences to learn about historic stories that they ignored when those stories were news. Todd Haynes‘ Dark Waters is no exception, as it reminds...
View ArticleThe Women Who Shaped Television In This Decade
This is part of our Decade Rewind, which runs throughout November. Keep up as we look back at the best, worst, and otherwise interesting movies and shows of the 2010s. As television has continued to...
View Article‘Brooklyn’ and the Emotional Journey of Leaving Home
The 2016 Oscars were so stacked, even a wonderful film like Brooklyn was buried beneath other memorable contenders. Despite not taking home a lot of awards, John Crowley‘s drama remains one of the best...
View ArticleThe First Oscar Snubs
This is part of our series Origin Stories, a biweekly column that uses film history to understand the hot topics of today. Snub. It’s a term that is unavoidable when reading about the Oscar...
View Article‘The Outsider’ is Sci-Fi’s Answer to True Crime’s Unanswered Questions
Stephen King is considered a master of the creepy and terrifying. The HBO show The Outsider, adapted from his novel of the same name, is like every horrific true crime story wrapped into one. Even...
View ArticleHow Current Cinema is Decoding Lesbian Stereotypes Forged by the Hays Code
This is part of our series Origin Stories, a biweekly column that uses film history to understand the hot topics of today. One of the biggest films to come out of the festival circuit last year,...
View ArticleHow ‘Emma.’ Embraces the Screwball Comedy of Jane Austen
Jane Austen adaptations are hilariously witty period pieces that are always a delight to watch, and Autumn De Wilde‘s Emma. is no exception. Along with luscious costumes and sets, the film brings the...
View ArticleKelly Reichardt on How ‘First Cow’ Questions the Myth of America’s Roots
Kelly Reichardt, director of such fantastic films as Certain Women, Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy, and the Western Meek’s Cutoff, is a master at showing the intricacies of human life. Now she brings her...
View ArticleThe Effect of the Voyeur Camerawork in ‘The Invisible Man’
Leigh Whannell‘s reimagined Invisible Man is a more terrifying and menacing Universal Monster for modern times. Before his “death,” he was an abusive, controlling husband to a trapped Cecilia Kass,...
View ArticleRetracing Hollywood’s Fascination with the Remake
This is part of our series Origin Stories, a biweekly column that uses film history to understand the hot topics of today. The number of complaints about remakes these days would have you believing...
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