Heavy Metal Gods Take a Bow
The studded leather stage garb, the ear-splitting falsetto and thrashing guitars of a bunch of heavy metal gods…
Warwick Thornton’s Indigenous Australian Western
An experienced cinematographer before he turned to directing, Warwick Thornton has a feel for the Central Australian desert…
Isabelle Huppert in Vampire Camp
If you ever looked at the ageless face of Isabelle Huppert onscreen — the alabaster skin, the enigmatic…
Juliette Binoche in Singular Dementia Drama
Revolving around three generations of women — played by Anna Calder-Marshall, Juliette Binoche and Florence Hunt — within…
Art and Exile Collide in Lyrical Quebecois Drama
Art and exile mesh together in fascinating ways in Nina Roza, the accomplished new feature from Quebecois writer-director…
A Chronicle of Burgeoning Nigerian Filmmakers
Another week, another cacophony of discourse about whether AI-generated filmmaking is actually creativity, and whether creative people can…
Johnny Flynn & John C. Reilly Western
You wait eons for a great tragic film set on the American frontier in the 19th century from…
Sandra Hüller as 17th Century Woman Passing as a Man
The title role in the austerely beautiful character study Rose is such a thrilling fit for Sandra Hüller…
Callum Turner, Elle Fanning in Dark Satire
The Pet Shop Boys’ synth-pop banger “Paninaro” is a tongue-in-cheek anthem to hedonistic Italian youth culture of the…
A Gory Finnish Parenting Horror
A bad case of the baby blues turns into a gory fight for survival in Nightborn (Yön Lapsi),…
Bella Ramsey in Uneven Teen Cancer Dramedy
Bella Ramsey takes a break from killing zombies and avenging father figures, their usual pastimes in series The…