Last year, the Tribeca Film Festival became the first major North American film festival to be held largely in-person since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic…
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The Thief CollectorDirected by Allison Otto How does a prized painting get stolen from the University of Arizona’s Museum of Art in broad daylight, disappear without…
Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBetsDirected by Zack Canepari and Drea Cooper Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets explores the complete chaos that ensued when a…
After a last-minute cancellation in 2020 and an all-digital offering last year, the SXSW Film Festival is returning to in-person programming for the 2022 event, with…
My last set of Sundance films this year started with the star-studded cast of Alice, featuring Keke Palmer, Jonny Lee Miller, and Common. The film opens…
After a strong first round of Sundance films, the bar was set extremely high the next set, which kicked off with Watcher. Julia (Maika Monroe) is…
This year’s version of the Sundance Film Festival got a little bit closer to feeling “normal,” even with the in-person experience being canceled in early January.…
We’re in the home stretch of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and although we were fortunate enough to screen 19 films over the course of five…
Sundance 2022 is beginning to wind down: praise is being lavished, deals are being made, and the festival is closer to the end than the beginning.…
With the chaos of Sundance 2022’s opening weekend now behind us and the dust beginning to settle, we’re taking a break from screenings to catch up…
Emergency stars Donald Elise Watkins and RJ Cyler as two best friends with a singular mission: to become the first Black students at their university to…
When You Finish Saving the World finds Jesse Eisenberg stepping behind the camera for the first time, adapting his acclaimed audio drama into a feature length…
After last year’s hybrid offering, which featured digital screenings and satellite theaters across the country, the Sundance Film Festival had planned to return to Park City…
Director Michael Showalter is best known for comedic efforts like Wet Hot American Summer and The Big Sick, so you’d be forgiven for assuming he might…
“I think without humor, I would die,” says Alison Pill. “And that’s not hyperbolic.” It’s the morning after her latest film, All My Puny Sorrows, premiered…
Opening to rave reviews in 2016, Broadway smash Dear Evan Hansen was nominated for nine Tony Awards, taking home the statue in six of those categories,…
After an all-digital rendition due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Toronto International Film Festival returned for its 46th edition this month, offering a hybrid…
Just three years after Gustav Möller’s taut low-budget Danish thriller The Guilty, Antoine Fuqua helms this glossy American remake, leveraging his action sensibilities to squeeze a…
Michael McGowan’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel All My Puny Sorrows seeks to explore mental illness and injuries both physical and emotional through its depiction…
Screening at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Contemporary World Cinema lineup, Blaine Thurier’s Kicking Blood puts a unique spin on vampire…
Vampires and filmmaking have been intertwined since the earliest days of cinema, when F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu first terrified audiences in 1922, nearly a decade before…
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is officially underway, kicking things off last night with the world premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, the feature film adaptation…
The 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival has come to a close, and after experiencing heart-pounding scares in The Night House and religious zealotry taken to extremes…
A wickedly funny but wildly uneven riff on office politics, Kazuaki Seki’s Office Royale — enjoying its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival…
Edoardo Vitaletti’s feature-length debut, The Last Thing Mary Saw, is a somber horror tale set in the winter of 1843, where a forbidden romance will have…
Revenge thrillers are rarely in short supply, particularly at genre-heavy affairs like the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival, and often require something truly unique in order…
The exploration of grief through the horror genre isn’t exactly a new concept — examples can be found as far back as 1973’s Don’t Look Now…
The Fantasia International Film Festival is back for its 25th anniversary, once again embracing a virtual event composed of scheduled screenings, an on-demand film library, panels,…
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival continues to shape up, with Dear Evan Hansen — director Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical –…
The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival has officially come to an end, and we’re wrapping up the last of our coverage with more brief impressions of some…
Adapting video games into feature-length films can be a tricky undertaking, and Hollywood has churned out a lengthy list of failures with few success stories in…
As the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival winds down, tension-filled home invasion thriller See For Me — centering on Sophie, a blind woman house-sitting in a remote…
When the New Orleans City Council voted to remove several Confederate monuments in December 2015, they probably didn’t expect groups of armed civilians to stand vigil…
When Columbus, Ohio-based filmmakers Ori Segev and Noah Dixon set out to make their first feature, they never expected it to screen at a major film…