Spaceship Earth (2020 | United States | 113 minutes | Matt Wolf) When eight “Biospherians”, clad in their Star Trek-inspired jumpsuits, locked themselves …
Category: Reviews
Capital in the Twenty-First Century brings rock star economics to the screen
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2020 | New Zealand | 103 minutes | Justin Pemberton) Like countless millions, I haven’t yet gotten …
Gunpowder Heart is a powerful film from Guatemala, and a first-time director
Gunpowder Heart (Pólvora en el corazón) (2019 | Guatemala | 87 minutes | Camila Urrutia) Gunpowder Heart, a new movie that premiered …
Bad Education is a portrait of the sociopath as a broken man
Bad Education (2020 | USA | 103 minutes | Cory Finley) Bad Education, a new movie that debuted on HBO this weekend, …
Little Joe is a Zombie Movie for Plant Lovers, and it Works
Little Joe (2019 | Austria/UK/Germany |105 minutes | Jessica Hausner) For months and months I’ve been dying to catch a glimpse of Little …
Three Decades Have Only Confirmed the Shelf Life of a Cult Director’s Lost Film
Shelf Life (1993 | USA | 84 minutes | Paul Bartel) Of all the directors who got their start with exploitation film …
Never Rarely Sometimes Always: Eliza Hittman’s Compelling Abortion Procedural
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020 | USA | 101 minutes | Eliza Hittman) Eliza Hittman is establishing herself as a chronicler of …
Other Music will make you nostalgic for record stores, not just a special one in New York
Other Music (2019 | USA | 85 minutes | Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller) In a more perfect world, the new documentary …
Selah and the Spades is the high school movie you need while schools are closed
Selah and the Spades (2019 | USA | 97 minutes | Tayarisha Poe) At Haldwell, an elite, high school boarding school, the …
The Occupant is a Spanish thriller with a few thrills
The Occupant (Hogar) (2020 | Spain | 103 minutes | Alex and David Pastor) Javier Muñoz is a broken man. He was …