Thursday, June 25, 2026
A river of bodily emissions runs through it: in Lucio Castro’s new film, the flow of erotic energy proves to be a mystical power.
Laith Khalifeh as Adnan in Drunken Noodles. Courtesy Stra…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2026
In his audacious directorial debut, comedian and actor John Early stars as an LA ingenue who relapses into bulimia after becoming a
reluctant food influencer.
John Early as Maddie Ralph in…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2026
Call her by her new name: in Milagros Mumenthaler’s film about a fashion designer’s mental disintegration, a story of the ruptures between before and after, past and present.
Isabel Aim…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2026
Rising star Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig at her peak deliver impressive performances as a Swiss outsider artist in Liliane de Kermadec’s elliptical 1975 film.
Isabelle Huppert as …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
Maurice Pialat’s compassionate 1971 miniseries examines the Great War’s fracturing of civilian life.
Hervé Lévy as Hervé Gardy and Michel Terrazon as Michel Latour in La maison…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
Steven Soderbergh's intriguing new drama about the anguish of abandoning one's art.
Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in The Christophers. Courtesy Neon. Photo: …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2026
The unheimlich maneuver: Christian Petzold's film pits the cozy rituals of domesticity against the eeriness of family secrets.
Philip Froissant as Jakob, Paula Beer as Laura, and Barbara Au…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2026
Two tales of coming out: new films by Hafsia Herzi and Anna Cazenave Cambet are a study in contrasting experiences of self-reckoning and sapphic sexuality.
Nadia Melliti as Fatima in The Li…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
In Satyajit Ray's 1970 film, four loutish young urbanites from Kolkata encounter class differences and potential romance
on holiday in the country.
Samit Bhanja as Hari, Subhendu Chatterje…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
Bloodlust and obsession, carnage and castration: romance and heartbreak take on new meanings in the returning Anthology Film Archives series.
Berta Socuéllamos as Ãngela and Jose Antoni…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Harry Lighton's new film, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård as an odd couple, plays like a sub/dom rom-com.
Harry Melling as Colin and Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Ray in Pilli…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2026
Striking discordances bring an animated intensity to Robert Aldrich's 1956 tearjerker starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson.
Joan Crawford as Millicent "Milly" Wetherby and Cliff Rober…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2025
A young table-tennis champ careens and crashes through an obstacle course of chaos and catastrophes in Josh Safdie's new film.
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. Courtesy …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
In a retrospective series at Anthology Film Archives, the cult-cinema icon's bewitching essence is on full display.
Mary Woronov as Camilla Stone in Sugar Cookies. Courtesy Anthology Film A…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
'70s cinema homages, '70s mustaches, '70s dictatorship repression: Kleber Mendonça Filho's latest mixes high-energy excitement with
the ghosts of the past.
Wagner Moura as Marcelo in Th…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Ira Sachs's hypnotic portrayal of a daylong conversation between the photographer and his longtime friend Linda Rosenkrantz.
Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw as Peter Hujar…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
Kelly Reichardt's latest film: a bumbling suburban dad, a fumbled art heist, and a portrait of a nation on the decline.
Josh O'Connor as James Blaine Mooney in The Mastermind. Courtesy Cine…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
In the late writer-director's works, portraits of headstrong women under the influence of adventurous spirits.
Emmanuelle Devos as Pomme in If You Don't, I Will. Courtesy L'Alliance New Yor…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
In two films by Chantal Akerman playing as part of MoMA's complete retrospective, teenage heroines ramble through city streets
hungering for more.
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in J…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Dag Johan Haugerud's trilogy concludes with the portrayal of a teenager who writes a manuscript detailing her infatuation with
her high school teacher.
Selome Emnetu as Johanna and Ella Ã…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
Drugs, desperation, degradation, David Bowie: Uli Edel's 1981 cult film portrays the downward spiral of a young girl who falls in with teenage street addicts in West Berlin.
Natja Brunckhor…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
A matchmaker girl living in a matrimonial world:
Celine Song's forgettable new rom-com.
Dakota Johnson as Lucy and Pedro Pascal as Harry in Materialists. Courtesy A24. Photo: Atsushi Nishi…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2025
Sex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh's latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage.
Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Black …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2025
Humor and humiliation, violence and vulnerability: the chaos of thwarted eros knows no bounds in Alain Guiraudie's latest.
Félix Kysyl as Jérémie and Jean-Baptiste Durand as Vincent in M…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
For the man from nowhere, leaving is best: a young Parisian sojourns to Tunisia, where he was born, and finds few answers in Guy Gilles's beguiling 1970 film.
Patrick Jouané as Pierre in E…
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In 1900s and 1990s Chicago, parallel romances play out between two Black Chicagoans, one Deaf and one hearing.
John Earl Jelks as Arthur Jones and Michelle A. Banks as Malindy Brown in Comp…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
Domestic misery loves spectral company in
Steven Soderbergh's new thriller.
Callina Liang as Chloe in Presence. Courtesy Neon.
Presence, directed by Steven Soderbergh,
now in theaters
…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2025
To go gentle"and not so gentle"into that good night: two emotionally explosive films by Michael Roemer present unsparing
portrayals of illness and death.
Reverend Bryant in Dying. Courtesy…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2024
Oblique horrors and unsettling vulnerabilities abound in Joshua Oppenheimer's musical film about a wealthy family living in a luxurious bunker during climate apocalypse.
Tim McInnerny as Bu…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2024
Misery's company: Mike Leigh's engrossing new film is a brilliant study of two diametrically opposed sisters.
Ani Nelson as Kayla, Michele Austin as Chantelle, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pan…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2024
In his latest film, Luca Guadagnino presents a sanitized adaptation of William S. Burroughs's 1985 novel.
Daniel Craig as William Lee in Queer. Courtesy A24. Photo: Yannis Drakoulidis.
Que…
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