Beyond the responsibility of making sure a set is running smoothly and safely, it’s the more personal and specific responsibilities that a filmmaker places on themselves that will always be the ones that weigh heaviest and speak loudest on screen. Sian Heder’s work carries baggage, and she always finds a...

The most effective hook underpinning Possible Love comes down to a funny truth: people are nosy. Possible Love’s rich text on the psychological effects of class disparity suggests a correlation between one’s wealth and one’s insecurity. You spend a lot of time in this film lingering in dejection, festering in...

There’s a meta-textual reading here somewhere as Florian Zeller continues to struggle following up his remarkably assured debut fillm, The Father. Bunker is itself hiding in its own bunker. Behind skin-deep satire, behind non-sequitur subplots, behind the key jangling of tension and worldwide panic. In retrospect, it reads like an attempt...

It takes a staggering level of confidence just to conceive of the near-endless ideas I Love Boosters seems to have spilling out of its pinky finger, let alone actually rehearse them, discuss them, follow through on making them. Boots Riley strutted gleefully onto the stage at the Gala screening before...