Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. Writing about another great Locarno film a few days ago, I lamented the critical inclination to always bring up Éric Rohmer and Hong Sangsoo. Regardless, it would be wrong not to note the echoes of […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. If, by and large, American cinema has taken a puritanical view on sex, leave it to our neighbors up north to craft a refreshingly frank, hilarious comedy of manners about seeking erotic pleasure when life […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. Early one morning, a single father and widower (John Magaro)––credited as Dad––wakes up his perceptive nine-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and mischievous six-year-old Charlie (Wyatt Solis) and asks them to pack a suitcase as quickly […]
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While we wait and see if another filmmaker on this list gets around to making his planned It Follows sequel, Australian director Adrian Chiarella’s unnerving feature debut Leviticus brings a memorable dose of similar nightmarish dread. Following a pair of boys living in a conservative Christian community in rural Australia, as they begin to act […]
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Somewhere in a tower block, a Korean woman (Shim Eun-kyung) sits at a table in front of a blank piece of paper and pauses to think. After a moment, she begins to write. From her pencil, a scene emerges, and soon we are inside it. A young woman (Yuumi Kawai) awakens in the blue-hued backseat […]
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After wrapping shooting back in the first half of 2022, the road to theaters for Dave Green’s Coyote vs. Acme has had more obstacles than the Road Runner regularly faces. After Warner Bros. Discovery opted to shelve the film as a tax write-off, they finally smartened up and offered to sell to distributors. Ketchup Entertainment, […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens in theaters on April 24. David Mackenzie gets the opening credits out of the way as soon as we sit down to watch his latest film Fuze. A majority of the 98 minutes which follow are akin to a […]
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Quite a feat of DIY animation, Ryuya Suzuki crafted his century-spanning debut feature Jinsei over the course of 18 months as the sole animator, director, writer, editor, and musician. Premiering at Annecy Film Festival to acclaim, Greenwich Entertainment has set the animation for a release beginning on June 5 in NYC, followed by a nationwide […]
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A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival returns this week, taking place April 23-May 3 at the Queens venue. First Look gathers a varied, eclectic set of cinema from all corners of the world––including a number of films still seeking distribution, […]
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After breaking out leading Blue Ruin, Macon Blair showed his directorial chops with I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, and this year, he returned to Sundance Film Festival with his latest film. Idiots (previously titled The Shitheads) stars Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Mason Thames, Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage. […]
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