While ‘The Lost Bus’ follows the 2018 Northern California Camp Fire, the prevalence and recency of what seems to be an evermore common occurrence of mass wildfires in California makes the timely release of this project all the more topical.
Read MoreÓliver Laxe crafts an unrelentingly cruel picture with the explosive ‘Sirāt’, questioning human morality at the center of his scorching, pulse-pounding thriller.
Read MoreBecause director Francis Lawrence is such a storied visual artist, ‘The Long Walk’ can mostly overcome its shoddily written screenplay as it continuously coddles the audience through a slow paced stroll of Stephen King’s first work.
Read MoreAlex Russell eviscerates our social media-obsessed era with the riveting and often terrifying ‘Lurker’, thanks to incredible turns from Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe.
Read MoreSpike Lee’s adapts Akira Kurosawa’s original with ’Highest 2 Lowest’ - undoubtedly the best remake of his career, anchored by another magnifying lead turn from Denzel Washington, who continues to prove why he’s the greatest to have ever done it.
Read MoreIn a summer movie landscape overcrowded with superhero blockbusters, ‘She Rides Shotgun’ is a refreshing change of pace, delivering a powerful story of unconditional love and lost innocence set against a thrilling backdrop.
Read MoreWhile it may not be as narratively and thematically strong as ‘Past Lives’, Celine Song still delivers a jaw-droppingly affecting meditation on love and its intrinsic connection to life with ‘Materialists’.
Read MoreWhile ‘On Swift Horses’ boasts compelling performances from its star-studded cast, the film’s lack of identity makes it difficult for audiences to latch onto its story and thematic underpinnings.
Read MoreRami Malek shines in ‘The Amateur’, as the Oscar-winning actor delivers a performance in this action-thriller that feels tailor-made for him.
Read MoreThanks to a magnifying lead turn from Susan Chardy, Rungano Nyoni ensures you will not forget ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’, as one of the year’s most important movies.
Read MoreIn this story of the past coming back to haunt an opera director during a production of ‘Salome’, director Atom Egoyan gives us ‘Seven Veils’, a film which is all that Egoyan fans could ask for.
Read MorePaolo Sorrentino looks at youth’s deepest regrets as time goes by in ‘Parthenope,’ a study on how we we choose to spend the finite period we have on this planet.
Read MoreWalter Salles attempts to denounce Brazil’s military dictatorship in his family drama ‘I’m Still Here’ but accomplishes very little despite a committed performance by Fernanda Torres.
Read MoreWhile stars Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas give their all in ‘Babygirl’, the film is hindered by a severe lack of chemistry with its lead star and a profoundly miscast Harris Dickinson.
Read MoreTim Fehlbaum’s attempt at criticizing the normative ideals of journalistic objectivity in ‘September 5’ turns into a total and complete failure by being afraid of engaging itself with the backdrop it presents.
Read MoreWilliam Goldenberg energetically depicts Anthony Robles' inspiring story in ‘Unstoppable’, a sports drama anchored by compelling turns from Jharrel Jerome, Don Cheadle, and Jennifer Lopez.
Read MoreDespite an assured visual style, Steve McQueen’s latest fiction film, ‘Blitz’, is an often muddled and dull drama that doesn’t know what it wants to say about the central characters it focuses on.
Read MoreClint Eastwood gives aspiring filmmakers a true lesson in shot-reverse-shot with ‘Juror #2’, a gripping procedural thriller on the fallacies of our legal system(s).
Read MoreRobert Zemeckis teams up with Tom Hanks and AI, but the garish experiment simply becomes non-linear, static and a complete miss. The resulting film is ‘Here’, and it is just as baffling as you think.
Read MoreAndrea Arnold turns her social realist lens into a magical one with ‘Bird’ and fails at drawing any meaningful arcs on its central characters despite a constantly assured stylistic touch.
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