American audiences may not be familiar with Alice Rohrwacher, but if there’s any justice, Lazzaro Felice will put her on the map in a big way.
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What begins as a fairly straightforward story of a boy falling in love with a girl quickly escalates into something far more profound. Lee Chang-dong’s 'Burning’ is a masterpiece from a director working at the top of his game.
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An analysis of technical choices in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name that articulate the characters' inner emotional journeys and reflect the film's mastery of the medium.
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A personal essay about my relationship with Call Me by Your Name.
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Rewatching movies is something we normally reserve for only our favorites. But maybe it's more important to rewatch movies we didn't love the first time around.
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I can't remember the last time I saw a movie so specifically designed to invite and encourage outrage from the audience.
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Kenneth Lonergan's 2016 film Manchester by the Sea turns a genre on its head, infusing it with a masculine energy as a way of condemning that very same energy.
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Denis Villeneuve's new film, Arrival posits itself as an incredibly optimistic portrayal of the modern human experience making it a must see in the face of the most recent election.
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The interplay between the Greek myth of Chiron and director Barry Jenkins' new film Moonlight is an incredible example of the way Greek myths continue to permeate popular culture today.
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The unrelenting comparisons between Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train reflect an ongoing bias against women's stories and the way we force them to compete for attention.
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