An election promised the shift from military rule to democracy, with unofficial results and public sentiment declaring victory for the Social Democratic Party. The public waited for months for the announcement...

A movie has been released written entirely by generative AI … kind of. The newly-released Romanian film, “Dracula” (2025) follows a fictional director assigned to write an adaptation of “Dracula”...

“Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” is an anthropological film that centers on siblings’ complex relationships with their parents. The film captures the discomfort and awkwardness that often accompany...

The horror genre is oftentimes connotated as grotesque and off putting, glimpsing into the dark side of the brain. “Mad God.” “The Evil Dead.” “Hereditary.” Films like these even challenge...

Heartbreaking and impactful, “The Voice of Hind Rajab" is about a 6 year-old Palestinian girl, Hind, who is trapped in a car with her dead relatives. Told through her real life calls to the Palestine...

“The Piano Lesson” is a theatrical play masquerading as a movie. Based on the 1987 play by August Wilson, the film adaptation is proof that sticking to a story’s theatrical roots can pay off on screen...

Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” is a strikingly empathetic portrait of people on the fringes of society while simultaneously being in the midst of it. Re-teaming with Leigh twenty-eight years after their...

Wow! Not sure what else to say. This was my first experience with Gints Zilbalodis’ work – Latvian filmmaker, animator and director of “Flow” – and I can confidently say that I am a fan. “Flow”...

Flashes of the past and present are overlaid on top of one another throughout “Grand Tour.” A dance of motorcycles swirling around a roundabout is played simultaneously with footage of the Chinese...

A post-apocalyptic anti-musical overwhelmed with guilt and grief, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” follows a billionaire family and the cracks that start to form when a young woman shows up in the...

The rarity of something like Jules Rosskam’s “Desire Lines” is reason enough for its existence. Woven in-between talking heads interviews with gay trans men speaking frankly about their experiences...

The first narrative film from Indian director Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” is a spellbinding story of two nurses who share an apartment in Mumbai and a sisterhood forged amidst their respective...