If you're type who gets choked up every time you read Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" essay and enjoy listening to Neil Degrasse Tyson's "we ar...

Was Kids actually a good movie? At the time, the Gen X edgelords loved it, and apparently their younger siblings felt the same way, as the L...

A Danish christmas movie that is anything but jolly, That Time of Year does an impeccable job of capturing simmering family tensions during...

On the Isle of Wight, the timid young Violet loves to escape her dull surroundings through song. When she's faced with the prospect of a rea...

There's a scene in Peter Strickland's fourth film, In Fabric, where a ghoulish old man watches lustfully as the witch-like employees of his...

As a general rule, movies about punk-adjacent culture simply can't be done. (A recent exception was Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room, but that m...

There's a fascinating movie to be made about James Frey's A Million Little Pieces — the larger-than-life memoir that was proven to be false,...

Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand's latest, The Fall of the American Empire, is a watchable but unprofound money heist ruminating on capitalism...

When the story of David and Nic Sheff unfolded over a decade ago, it shaped the public understanding of drug addiction by shedding equal amo...

The world did not need another adaption of an Ian McEwan novel (Atonement, On Chesil Beach), nor another sentimental movie about upper class...

Despite some problems with pacing and clunky storytelling, Endzeit is a visually lush, philosophical zombie film with a unique aesthetic. Ra...