Patrick Wang’s ‘A Bread Factory’ is a Dizzying Callback to the Intimate Human Epics of the Hollywood New Wave

It’s easy to forget that in 1972 the highest grossing film in the United States…

Movie Review: The Second Time Around

Few genres leave older performers quite as alienated as the romantic comedy. If all you…

‘Islam & the Future of Tolerance’ Review: A Penetrating Examination of the Struggle Between Atheism and Islam

Desh Avila and Jay Shapiro’s Islam & the Future of Tolerance isn’t so much a…

The Mule Movie Review: Clint Eastwood Stumbles Again

Once the proud pillar of American cinematic masculinity, nowadays Clint Eastwood is the Hollywood embodiment…

Capernaum Movie Review: A flawed but essential portrait of childhood poverty

Capernaum is about two hours of near unrelenting bleakness, but it’s the kind of bleakness…

The Quake Movie Review: Norway’s New Disaster Film Barely Registers on the Richter Scale

In 2015, Roar Uthaug The Wave made waves—pun not intended—as the self-proclaimed first ever Scandinavian…

Tyrel Movie Review: A genre bending examination of bro culture

The precise genre categorization of Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel is difficult to pin down in concrete…