Only halfway through the year, with six months still to go, “The Furious” is, hands down, the best action movie…
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If you’re going to title your film “mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do,…
Carl Joseph Papa does not use animation as decoration. In his films, it behaves more like an instrument of pressure.…
What do we owe the dead? And what do the dead owe us? Often, those meaty, existential questions are easy…
Director Tao Zhang’s “Against the Flow” — which played at his year’s Tribeca Festival — isn’t an easy film to…
Earlier in the 25th Tribeca Festival I covered two animated shorts, “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!” and “Saba”. They were both…
The funny thing about a phone video is how little ceremony it asks from us. We take one because a…
A father can become two different people in a son’s memory. There’s the man everyone else praises, and there’s the…
In a wordless opening sequence that launches “The Currents” (2025) designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González-Sola) graciously receives a professional award…
The Philippines has become so used to absence that we sometimes forget how strange our family arrangements can look from…