With 1983’s Breathless, we see the key bridge between Godard’s playfulness and Taratino’s particularly American postmodernism. Available on Tubi!
Breathless (1983) — Don’t Respect the Original!
Category: Sketches
Sweet and earnest dives into the bowels of cinema.
It’s a Wonderful Dog!
A great canine acting talent is wasted in The Friend, a tale of Naomi Watts adopting a Great Dane that is heavy on the schmaltz, but lacking in punch.
The Wedding Banquet. Boring Gay Asians.
The Wedding Banquet is a broad remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 work that drains the rich cultural specificity of the subject matter into boring slop.
Sex, Spies and Satellite Tapes
A witty, low-key riff on the intersection between love and espionage, Black Bag is one of the best spy films to come out in recent years.
Death of a Unicorn Flogs a Dead Cast
A24’s broadest comedy yet, Death of a Unicorn feels woefully miscast, providing another eat-the-rich satire that has nothing interesting to say.
Hard Pass: The Quixotic Politics of Cannes Rejections
Cannes is supposed to be a festival that supports auteur cinema. So why does the festival often give its most long-standing guests the cold shoulder?
Drop It
Try as it may, Drop is hampered by its central conceit, with its surprise smartphone messages more of a pain than a genuine source of tension.
The Sean Baker Project
Sean Baker’s career from hardscrabble indie director to Oscar winner has been anything but easy: we have the deep dive on Anora’s unlikely success.
Proving Humanity in the World of I’m Not a Robot
Oscar-nominated short I’m Not a Robot examines the line between humanity and identity, exploring the illusion of control with humour and precision.
Notes on a Scandal: How Fan Armies Are Reshaping Film Culture
The Emilia Pérez controversy is the latest example of how fan armies drive the discourse during awards season, reshaping the film world in the process.