“La Chimera” is a story of shackles, as tender performances expose a deep yearning for the past and the crushing weight it levels on life thereafter. Following a recently paroled grave robber named...

Framing a Serbian protest within the borders of youth, “Lost Country” walks a thin line between family and national ideology, building to an end of melancholic design. In 1990s Serbia, plagued by civil...

Tracking a household of Nazi loyalists through the conventions of daily life, Jonathon Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” is a palpable jab at sin and the human core that provokes it. Set just outside...

Moving through themes of faith, mortality and creation, Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” offers a radiant study of life through the eyes of pure adolescents, a hallmark of his work told in...

“Rustin” is a well-intentioned attempt at a biographical drama successfully rooted in history but too overwhelmingly energetic to dig those same roots in reality. The jazzy soundtrack and 1960s stylization...

Using Batman villains as metaphors for queer identity, “The People’s Joker” is an unsuspecting, coming-of-age film utilizing the parody genre to mask its true intent. Director and writer Vera Drew...

Eccentrically curious and undoubtedly crude, “Poor Things” is an odd journey of self-discovery that boasts just enough substance amid the psychedelic style to make it a worthy watch. Director Yorgos...

The directorial debut of notable actor Michael Shannon, “Eric Larue” tiptoes around the crisis of a school shooting, too afraid to step into a space of meaningful commentary. Following a couple trying...

Something haunting, if not still comedic, about the film is watching an ancient, world-weary, vampiric Augusto Pinochet float above the modern streets of Santiago. The former Chilean dictator, adorned...

As “Barbie” and “Bottoms” surpassed expectations with financial and critical success, the vastly different films sparked a discussion about women and LGBTQIA+ representation in Hollywood and the...

“A Haunting in Venice,” a film based on one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known novels, debuted Sept. 15, on what would have been the famed writer’s 133rd birthday. While Christie’s 1969 book “Hallowe’en...

Society is no stranger to global dilemmas, a theme parallel in the sci-fi action film “The Creator,” a story centered around the rise of technology. Set in East Asia, the film follows an ex-special...