A new film review of The Phoenician Scheme, directed by Wes Anderson & released by Focus Features, for film review site In Review Online.

Eva Victor wants you to know that the cat is okay. “I feel like we should have put out a PSA!” they tell me at a recent festival screening. Victor, the Sorry, Baby — Eva Victor

A new film review of Eric Larue, directed by Michael Shannon & released by Magnolia Pictures, for film review site In Review Online.

A new film review of Mad Bills to Pay, directed by Joel Alfonso Vargas, for film review site In Review Online.

A new film review of Secret Mall Apartment, directed by Jeremy Workman, for film review site In Review Online.

CALL FOR PITCHES BROAD SOUND SPOTLIGHTS: Exercises in Thunder Road In 1947, Raymond Queneau published the book Exercises in Style. In this remarkable work (available in full here), Queneau told the ...

A new film review of The Actor, directed by Duke Johnson & released by NEON, for film review site In Review Online.

In A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers enacts the opening costume-change ritual. There’s something mythic about the transformation, something primal.

In the year 2000, a male gynecologist at the end of his rope is sucked into the sky by a tornado; he lands across the border, in Mexico, in the home of a woman giving birth and in need of an OBGYN.…

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'Virtuosity' may be uneven, but its style is decidedly assured; it quietly endures by the strength of the clothes on its back.

'Virtuosity' may be uneven, but its style is decidedly assured; it quietly endures by the strength of the clothes on its back.

Like the absurdists, David Lynch brings us to the void to remind us it’s there—and to invite us to laugh into it.

Covering some good stuff from 2024 we haven't yet featured.

Jonathan Demme’s 'Something Wild' is a lot of things—Renoirian screwball, Gen-X Odd Couple, defense for the reggae mixtape—but it’s a road movie first.

It is the very aridity of its emotional content, parched to desert-of-the-real levels by de-aging effects that render Hanks and Wright (and several of their co-stars) as weirdly artificial and subject...

Wrapping up coverage of the 2024 Chicago International Film Festival with notes on The Room Next Door and Here.

A biweekly magazine on the movies, books, and music that make your blood jump. Click to read Blood Jump, by Christian Craig, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

On Nathan Fielder’s show The Rehearsal (photo Allyson Riggs/HBO) There’s a telling moment about halfway through the pilot of The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder’s series for HBO Max, in which Kor, …

On Gerald Kargl’s Angst For all its brutality, Angst isn’t above having fun. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a man — let’s call him The Psychopath — approaches a home, a woman answer…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 'Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy' takes care to determine what constitutes and calculates the distance between two people, to examine the shapes that relationships can take.

What makes 'Her Smell' so refreshing is its admission of recovery as a continued effort.

An essay by Christian Craig about Jonathan Demme's Something Wild, as excerpted from the latest issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room.