Reviews of upcoming films with one-night-only screenings, commercial theatrical runs, or recently released on home video.
A hyperstylized, subversive and empowering rape-revenge fantasy, Coralie Fargeat’s assured debut feature is all about the execution. […]
An intoxicating audiovisual experience, Hlynur Pálmason’s Winter Brothers combines a variety of daringly innovative techniques to explore the depths of an unstable young man’s fractured psyche. […]
The bizarre relationship between two Brazilian women establishes the foundation for a mind- and genre-bending cinematic odyssey in Good Manners. […]
In The Day After, South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo employs stylish monochromatic photography and an intoxicating variety of artful techniques to tell a self-reflexive, modern moral tale with shades of gray. […]
In Beauty and the Dogs, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania employs innovative cinematic techniques to tell a vital and uncompromising tale of female empowerment, but an overall lack of subtlety detracts from the bite of her film. […]
Taylor Cherry reviews Mudbound, the Netflix original film that earned several nominations throughout the film industry awards season. […]
Taylor Cherry reviews the latest installment in the Cloverfield franchise, which skipped theaters and appeared directly on Netflix. […]
Emily Caulfield reviews Faces Places from legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda and photo-muralist JR, which kicks off the Spring 2018 schedule at UW Cinematheque. The film assembles a quilt-like portrait of France-at-large by piecing together the small stories of everyday life. […]
The addition of five live-action Batman films between 1989 and 2005 to the Netflix catalog provided Taylor Cherry an opportunity to revisit and reevaluate Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) starring Michael Keaton under the cowl. […]
Erik Oliver discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Luc Besson’s comic book adaptation, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and concludes that Besson’s cool sci-fi canvas outclasses his uncool approach to storytelling. […]
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