Features The moving “Days of Being Wild” is all too timely Wong Kar-wai's melancholy second feature hits harder in the face of current events.
Reviews “The Inheritance” struggles to coalesce notions of Black liberation By: Oluwatayo Adewole Ephraim Asili's Godard-inspired treatise on Black activism and community-building loses itself a bit in its artistic flair.
Berlinale Berlinale: “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” is quite a trip By: Reyzando Nawara Radu Jude's latest is as unsubtle as it is gripping, a strange tryptich about sex, justice, and communal madness.
Filmmaker of the Month Wong Kar-wai cut his teeth on the bold “As Tears Go By” Wong Kar-wai's first film is a messy crime drama that nonetheless shows glimmers of his future genius.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Pirate Radio” sinks under its own weight Philip Seymour Hoffman does his best to lift up Richard Curtis' (literally) queasy ode to '60s boomer rock hits.
Reviews “Stray” is a short but sweet look at man’s best friend By: B.L. Panther Elizabeth Lo directs a philosophical look at a dog's place in the world, and among humans.
TV “Good Girls” experiences the ennui of being bad in season 4 Good Girls digs deeper into the grind of a life of crime but loses a bit of its spark in the process.
Reviews “Murder Among the Mormons” puts the church under a microscope By: Beau North Jared Hess directs an uneven documentary on forgeries & a gruesome series of bombings committed within the Mormon community.
Reviews The spirited “Moxie” will charm its way into your life By: Ashley Lara Amy Poehler directs a smart, insightful comedy about teen girls learning to embrace their power.
Berlinale Berlinale 2021: “Night Raiders” warps Native issues into a weak YA thriller By: Peter Sobczynski Danis Goulet's sci-fi adventure intriguingly explores the systematic eradication of indigenous peoples through a Hunger Games lens, but falters when it leans too close to the conventions of that already-creaky genre.
Recap The “WandaVision” finale helps us see the rocky road to healing The end (for now) of Wanda and Vision's story reflects our own feelings of joy stolen and abundant pain the previous year has wrought.
Reviews Berlinale 2021: “Drift Away” is a riveting but frustrating police thriller By: Peter Sobczynski Xavier Beauvois' procedural offers intriguing day-in-the-life police work, despite an abrupt late-film shift into melodrama.
Interviews A conversation with “The World to Come” composer Daniel Blumberg The avant-garde musician talks about his first foray into the world of feature film scoring, and the experimental, yearning score that followed.
Reviews “Keep an Eye Out” is an absurd trip of a movie By: B.L. Panther Quentin Dupeiux's convoluted dark comedy is both perplexing and entertaining.
Reviews The good-natured “Coming 2 America” mostly plays the same notes By: Gena Radcliffe While the script is almost entirely a retread of the original, an engaged and enthusiastic cast makes it worthwhile.
Reviews “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run” eventually sinks into formula By: Clint Worthington The latest trip to Bikini Bottom soaks the sea in garish CG animation and a creaky level of sentiment, but plenty of the show's surreal delights remain.
Reviews “Crisis” milks the opioid crisis for a seedy, multi-pronged crime thriller By: Marshall Estes Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Gary Oldman, and others tackle different facets of the drug trade in an enjoyable, if flawed, procedural.
Reviews Brea Grant tackles the trauma of male violence in “Lucky” By: Theo Estes Brea Grant writes and stars in a mostly-successful thriller about a woman trying to hold herself together as her world falls apart.
Reviews “Pacific Rim: the Black” brings the action to the small screen By: Sarah Gorr An anime spinoff of the cult hit will satisfy all your robot v. kaiju fighting needs.
Berlinale Berlinale 2021: “Language Lessons” is a celebration of human connection By: Reyzando Nawara Natalie Morales directs herself and Mark Duplass in a tender look at the bonds we form to save ourselves in a hard world.
Reviews “Last Chance U: Basketball” scores in profiling the lives of college athletes By: Lisa Laman Though the episodes can get samey, Last Chance U: Basketball works well enough to charm even basketball novices.