Photo: Neon/Everett Collection Exit 8 may be based on a video game, but it feels at least equally guided by the ear-popping pressures caused by a declining birth rate. Before it ever gets to its main action, which involves an infinitely looping set of tile-lined hallways in the depths of the Tokyo metro, director Genki…
Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude is our modern madman and moralist, as fleet with pranks as he is steadfast in holding to account the hypocrites of the world (starting with the fault lines in his home country). Being idea-crazed and fast-moving, he’s rolled into art-house consciousness on the force of some sweeping masterpieces of sociocultural critique,…
Sometimes it takes a whole movie to get to a wonderful last line. But for that last line to truly be wonderful, the whole movie before it has a job to do. So it’s a pleasure to report that actor-turned-filmmaker Matthew Shear, with his debut feature “Fantasy Life,” shows a facility for finessing a meal…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> AI is coming. AI is here. AI is a bubble. AI is the future we want. AI is the end. AI is the path to a better us (at least the ones who survive it). A big topic, this artificial intelligence, with a lot of different ways to think about it. To grapple…
Earlier in his career, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa alternated between documentaries and narrative features. The documentaries tended to be distanced, austere, observational; those that focused on the past (such as 2005’s Blockade, about the WWII siege of Leningrad, or 2019’s State Funeral, about the funeral of Stalin) were often built entirely from archival footage….
Perhaps one day there will be a Colleen Hoover adaptation that doesn’t feel like a social experiment on its audience, but not yet. Reminders of Him is the latest of the BookTok phenom’s novels to get adapted, and it’s the most bloodless, sexless, impactless yet. What are these movies whe… More » Source: Read Full…
Undertone is a low-budget Canadian horror film that does a lot with a little. Photo: Dustin Rabin/A24 As someone who has podcasted in the past and has begun podcasting yet again in the present, I have a few quibbles about the setup of the show at the center of the new horror movie Undertone. Like,…
The evils of late-stage capitalism have been addressed at every film festival ever in recent years, but hardly ever in the midnight strand. This ingenious horror-comedy anthology achieves the almost unthinkable; while it delivers the requisite laughs and shocks — never an easy balance to strike, even at the best of times — Grind is…
