*BRUISER*'s crit & culture editor Alex Lei offers a preview of what's to come at this weekend's New/Next Film Festival

Paula González-Nasser's debut The Scout sees the gig economy bind us all, regardless of our specific industry.

Waking Life, which includes the most prominent "9/11 truther," still offers a way forward from the worst of times.

Waking Life, which includes the most prominent "9/11 truther," still offers a way forward from the worst of times.

The director talks about her psychosexual first feature.

20 years later, the navel-gazing of Richard Linklater's rotoscoped sci-fi take on A Scanner Darkly is as fresh as ever.

The perfect expression of Shunji Iwai’s filmmaking comes at the centerpoint of All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), when a group of teen boys film their trip to Okinawa on a consumer-grade camcorder. It’s...

Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus, and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia

Once synonymous with his geopolitically mature creator, Jack Ryan has gone the way of most conservative media: emptier and more cruel.

Denial of our "new normal" in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's post-pandemic films. || Alex Lei

20 years after Dance Party USA premiered, a DIY movement, a film festival, and a city have all taken a turn.

A rock-solid physical presence, the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall always let emotion dance behind his eyes.

Alex Lei reports on the festival's final Park City edition

The Outfit (1973) is an audacious and violent crime film by John Flynn from Richard Stark's novel. || Alex Lei

Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake

Magellan welcomes a new audience to the challenging, slow-burn work of Lav Diaz with a perfectly representative movie.

Avatar: Fire And Ash shows how clearly James Cameron has regressed towards the worst tropes of the Western.

After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass, and after Cass tells…

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An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues.

Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.

If last year’s Maryland Film Festival felt like a trial run for a new era of Baltimore’s cornerstone film event, the 26th Maryland Film Festival solidified its direction. Bouncing back from the low…

A new film essay on The Journey, directed by Peter Watkins, for film review site In Review Online.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.