The Smashing Machine is a smartly made movie that doesn’t attempt to intellectualize a sport where people pummel each other for money. Instead of looking at melodramatic moral breakdowns, devastating …
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Series creator and co-star Mae Martin’s unnerving, etherial, and quite often funny thriller Wayward takes a lot of familiar elements and turns them into something refreshing, renewing, and uniquely heartfelt …
No one does disaster and tragedy quite like Paul Greengrass, and while The Lost Bus isn’t the filmmaker’s best work, it certainly reaffirms his status as the king of depicting …
Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut Eleanor the Great is the definition of “good enough,” but it also boasts an impressive leading performance from everyone’s favourite nonagenarian, June Squibb, that makes …
Sepideh Farsi’s raw, intimate documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk tragically illustrates the increasingly dire conditions within Gaza through a long distance conversation carried on across a …
Seamlessly blending humour, action, social commentary, brutal flashes of violence, and old school gumshoe theatricality, Sterlin Harjo’s mystery The Lowdown comes at a tipping point in the genre. Just like …
For every admirable point that the hollow tech-world biopic Swiped tries to make about being a woman in a male dominated field, the film gets bogged down in trite, inauthentic …
Project Y is a tense Neo-noir crime drama about two women desperately trying to change their lives with a heist that will make or break them, starring South Korea’s Han …
Another tremendous fable from legendary Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) pulls from legend and oral tradition to look at the darker, more complicated side of keeping a promise. …
Tamara Kotevska’s elegant and moving The Tale of Silyan is proof that great beauty can be found in documentary filmmaking simply by going with the flow of life. Starting in …