With Die My Love, director Lynne Ramsay transports audiences into a dreamlike state of isolation, maternal turmoil, and creative frustration through the tremendous power of Jennifer Lawrence’s standout performance.
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere excavates the Nebraska Origin Myth
Who was it that said :all unhappy rock stars are alike, no happy rock star has ever truly existed in the history of this earth?” Probably the same esteemed writer who famously pondered “War, what is it good for?”
Train Dreams kicks off SFCS’s Best Pacific Northwest Film Series next week at SIFF Downtown
Opening with a spectacular shot of a massive tree falling in the woods (shot from the perspective of the tree) in the late 1800s and spanning decades into the twentieth century, Train Dreams was one of the major premieres to emerge from this year’s Sundance. Ahead of its theatrical release, it plays next week as a special presentation by the Seattle Film Critics Society.
Rose Byrne is a mother on the verge of a nervous breakdown in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
It’s a facile comparison given the involvement of a Safdie brother on the production team, but If I Had Legs I’d Kick You very much has the feeling of Uncut Gems for motherhood
Luca Guadagnino wades into the mess of campus cancel culture with After the Hunt
It’s hard to know what to make of Luca Guadagnino’s new film, a puzzling muddle of a campus #MeToo drama.
Family drama brings Daniel Day-Lewis back to the screen in Anemone
Anemone (2025 | UK, USA | 126 minutes | Ronan Day-Lewis) Most adult sons have to contrive ways to hang out with …
In One Battle After Another the struggle is real and worthy.
For me and the legions of devotees, every Paul Thomas Anderson film is an occasion. With its setting in the present day and its clear-eyed confrontation of the evil idiocy that plagues our current timeline, One Battle After Another is among his most urgently relevant.
Orcas Island Film Festival reveals astonishing lineup of cinematic gems
At this point, in their eleventh year, it barely counts as surprising when the Orcas Island Film Festival quietly drops one of the most astonishingly complete and compelling film festival lineups of the year. Over more than a decade, they’ve been curating a selection of films from around the world that has locals and visitors alike flocking to the quaint town of Eastsound on Orcas Island to celebrate much of the year’s best cinema.
TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Wake Up Dead Man, Nouvelle Vague, No Other Choice, Orwell 2+2 = 5, Blue Heron, Poetic License, Fuze
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Tuner, Nuestra Tierra, Sound of Falling
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.