I’ve said it before, but I’ll repeat myself until I pass out if I have to: docudramas are not documentaries; they don’t show us exactly what happened because they are […]
From Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi (On Body and Soul, The Story of My Wife), Silent Friend presents us with three very different stories, all exploring the natural world as it […]
Apparently, I like what writer/director Boots Riley is laying down. In his previous film, Sorry to Bother You, he found an inspired way to attack racism and gross capitalism through […]
A great deal of your appreciation of the first new Star Wars film since 2019’s limp Rise of Skywalker is going to depend on what you bring into it. In […]
Mad Bills to Pay feels like watching a home movie, which is part of why it’s so relatable. In Joel Alfonso Vargas’s directorial debut, we get an intimate look at […]
This article was written by Lauren Weiner. Ah, the age-old adage of unrequited love. It’s familiar to some people: to be young and dumb and smitten for someone close by, […]
There’s no escaping the truth that The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest work from the great Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Non-Fiction, Demonlover, Irma Vep series), is long, dense, complex, […]
Everywhere The Monster goes, he leaves a trail of destruction in his path. Everything The Monster touches is damaged to one degree or another. Sometimes the damage is on the […]
Not all things that have healing powers are found in medicine. That’s the lesson learned (I’d even say “proven”) from the spectacular and deeply moving documentary The Chaplain & The […]
Just when you thought the whodunit sub-genre of mysteries was going to begin and end with Rian Johnson’s Knives Out movies, we get director Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives. Based […]
This article was written by Thomas Hodgkins The Doc10 Film Festival screened new and unreleased documentaries in Chicago from April 24 to May 3. Accompanied by panels with filmmakers and […]
Brazilian cinema is having its moment just as Iranian, Taiwanese and Korean cinemas did at some point. But what happens after the flavor-of-the-month stops being the flavor-of-the-month? Answer: a select […]