Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen opens with teen skater Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) doing flip tricks by herself at the park. Two little boys eye her, kids at least s
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There's a pretty great fake-out in Jesse Peretz's adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel Juliet, Naked. It comes in the first few minutes of the film, as the usual regre
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Romantic comedies have resurfaced in critical consciousness, largely thanks to Asian creators (and despite steady production by black creators). For recent examples
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It might all seem normal and routine, declares Davey Armstrong (Graham Verchere), the hero of Summer of 84, but the suburbs are where the craziest shit happens. Tha
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A minor hubbub erupted at the screening I attended of Rob Tregenza's unfashionably still, life-as-it-unfolds drama Gavagai. While most of the film's dialogue is sp
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Twenty-six years before the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment revealed how quickly figures of authority can collapse individuals' moral framework, there was Willi
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Critics often dismiss today's blockbusters as looking like video games, but as anyone who actually plays games can attest, that comparison is hopelessly imprecise, j
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Many have never heard of John David Washington, but they know his father, Denzel. The two appeared briefly together in Spike Lee's 1992 masterpiece Malcolm X, f
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Friday, Aug. 10A compendium of propaganda that is itself a shrewd piece of agitprop, The Atomic Caf? galvanized audiences in 1982 simply by presenting the material ?
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Much like the work of his countrymen Asghar Farhadi and Abbas Kiarostami, writer-director Vahid Jalilvand's No Date, No Signature is a soberly made piece of melodr
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Writer-director Iram Haq made me want to punch the screen on which I was watching her heartbreaking, frustrating film, What Will People Say. The story follows a Pak
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Arriving in theaters a half-generation late, the YA adaptation The Darkest Minds is curiously behind the times and right on the money. The dystopias of the high Hun
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