I’ve always been a sucker for stories about misfit teenagers, the kind who see the world pressing down on them…
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“In the Mood for Love” in the Shadows of Postwar Saigon. It’s a title I offer with full awareness of…
We don’t talk enough about the women who spend their lives holding families together from afar—working in strangers’ homes, raising…
Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” is a fizzing, audacious remix of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” part procedural thriller, part…
Filmmaker Alexander Seltzer crafts perfect horror, sacrificing big budget effects for exceptional writing and cinematography. I loved his previous film…
Through her latest short films, “The Stand” and “Little Bird,” Vietnamese-American filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen pulls focus to the hardships faced…
There’s something insidious about the way “Stranger Eyes†draws you in. Not with shocks or whiplash reveals, but with a…
It’s been nearly a decade since the Coen Brothers split up, and neither Joel nor Ethan has made quite the…
Boring. Pretentious. Arthouse. “A Ghost Story†could be all these things. Yet somehow, it’s also evocative, and one of the…
Directed by Maya Ahmed, “Good Luck To Me†is an indie short that explores divorce. It’s told in an intimate…