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A lot of people are missing the point of The Bride! because they don’t want to consider the price paid for our entertainment. This is possibly…

By Susie Wilkins Armaan Zorace, aka Zorace One, isn’t interested in staying in one lane. His work moves between music, storytelling, and cinematic world-building, often blurring…

Amy Adams is a tangle of soft and sharp edges, of remorse and defensiveness in an emotionally raw performance as an alcoholic luminary from the modern…

The first animated film to open the Cannes festival’s Critics’ Week, In Waves is an understated marvel, its elegant hand-drawn simplicity bolstered by a strong emotional…

Nagi Notes, writer-director Koji Fukada’s latest, offers a thoughtfully modulated tribute to the communal coziness, haphazard beauty and organic shape of rural life in contemporary Japan.…

The bracing romantic screwball Anaïs in Love (2021) marked the arrival of Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet among the growing ranks of French female directors giving their national cinema…

The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s last film, the eerie and sad I Saw the TV Glow, used a made-up artifact from the pop-culture past — a cultishly…

Screenlife movies just seem cruel at this point. After all, we spend most of our waking lives staring at screens. Computer screens, laptop screens, tablet screens,…

Kantemir Balagov showed talent in his 2017 debut, Closeness, about a kidnapping in a North Caucasus town, then delivered fully on that promise with his stunning second…

In the hot, dry climate of Northwest Nevada, a mother drops off her daughter in town, urging her not to come home anytime soon. Cleo (Elsie…