Red Rooms was not Pascal Plante’s first film, but it sure suggested an arrival. Coming from seemingly nowhere and immediately placing the Québécois director on our radar, that film—which we gave a rather high grade when we still assigned grades—wound up on our list of the best and most underseen titles of 2024, roughly the […]
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The brilliant Catherine Breillat made her long-awaited return with Last Summer a few years back, and now thankfully the wait for her next feature won’t be as long. She’ll next direct The German Cousin, an adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel The Krull House, first published in 1939 and centered on the community of a rural […]
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Without putting too fine a point on it, the 2026 Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes has kicked off with a bit of a dog. The latest from exiled Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, Butterfly Jam takes place in and around the Circassian community in New Jersey—a diasporic milieu that will call to mind movies like Anora, Little […]
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There’s not much room nowadays for movies that are merely pretty good, even—especially—coming from great directors. Olivier Assayas’ CV has fortified his great-director status for so long that it’s sometimes hard to square his brilliance with the films that offer just a bit less than that (and it doesn’t help when one of his pantheon […]
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One return to the director’s chair we’ve long-awaited is John Sayles. The Lone Star and Matewan helmer hasn’t made a film in 13 years, with his last release being the 2013 crime drama Go for Sisters. While he has publicly exclaimed difficulty in finding financing, it looks like things are finally moving forward on a […]
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The tides of cinema history have somehow obscured Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse, where one role is inhabited by two of French cinema’s greatest actors. Isabelle Huppert plays Aloïse Corbaz—who was admired by the art brut movement but kept institutionalized for the last 46 years of her life, often deemed a key outsider artist—as a young […]
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Even if he hadn’t recently landed the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, you’ve likely heard the name Curry Barker. He’s the latest in the recent spate of former sketch comedians/YouTubers turning to horror-directing with an online feature under his belt. Obsession—his theatrical debut—fully lives up to both his promise and the title. For whatever familiarity lies within […]
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That every Kiyoshi Kurosawa project of late—some of which are 45 minutes long and originated as an NFT—can get a theatrical release makes especially odd the stranding of Serpent’s Path, a wholly deserving remake of his 1998 film. (Even that feel-bad triumph’s restoration got a proper run while the new film stayed offshore.) We shall […]
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Is it still a twist if the script tells you what’s happening around the 15-minute mark? The marketing that surrounds Katie Aselton’s Magic Hour seems to believe so. I’d argue the film itself does not, though, because it needs us to know what happened in order to understand what’s happening now. The struggle between Erin […]
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Following up his impressive debut The Vast of Night, it’s been a long wait for Andrew Patterson’s second feature The Rivials of Amziah King, which premiered at SXSW last year and will finally arrive in theaters beginning August 14. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Angelina LookingGlass, Kurt Russell, Cole Sprouse, Owen Teague, Scott Shepherd, Rob Morgan, and […]
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