REVIEWS

In a July 2025 article for The New York Times, Carlos Aguilar stated that director Kiyoshi Kurosawa “is to psychological fright what David Cronenberg is to body horror.” Indeed, over the last 30 years, Kurosawa has become a master at weaving sinister, slow-creeping dread into the everyday- elevating the mundane into something almost imperceptibly menacing. However, he has not been constricted to the realm of the macabre. From dramatic comedies like ‘Licence to Live,’ to sci-f

Few directors have so consistently blurred the line between agony and ecstasy as Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Ever since 1989’s ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ fused flesh and metal into a shrieking, psychosexual nightmare, Tsukamoto has been both a chronicler and an architect of urban alienation- a filmmaker obsessed with the violence of existence in an indifferent world. His jagged, intimate films pulse with bodily horror and emotional extremity, but beneath the rust and blood there’s always

Although considered horror royalty, Stephen King has never been pigeonholed to the genre. From ‘Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption’...

Although he didn’t rack up as many acting credits as his friends Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash was no stranger to the...

In 2022, Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Top Gun Maverick’ took the world by storm. A sequel to Tony Scott’s 1986 classic, the Tom Cruise starrer took...

Few genres are as seductive or as enduringly popular as the gangster movie. Since the earliest days of cinema- with 1906’s ‘The Black...

There are few detective shows as endearing and unique as ‘Monk’. Airing from 2002 to 2009, the series followed Adrian Monk, a brilliant...

Ernst Lubitsch made films that winked at you. Sophisticated spectacles, his comedies didn’t shout their jokes, but smuggled them in like...

The partnership of Ringo Lam and Chow Yun-fat has resulted in some brilliant films. Their first collaboration, ‘City on Fire,’ helped...

John Grant is a schoolteacher in a remote town deep in the Australian outback. It's the Christmas holidays, and he plans to go to Sydney...

It is 1917, and Arthur Hamp is a volunteer Private with the British Army. After the rest of his company are killed, Hamp decides to “go...

Yosuke Sasano is a salaryman in Tokyo who is let go from his job at an architectural firm. Struggling in his marriage and low on capital,...

It is Autumn 1913, and war is looming in Europe. In the English countryside, the aging Sir Randolph Nettleby invites a group of his peers...

It is 1983, and Ray Buckey- a teacher at his grandmother’s preschool- is arrested after numerous children accuse him of sexual assault....

It is hard to think of a movie as underwhelming or as twee as Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City,’ a meandering, grandiose comic-drama that is...

Jackie is an executive assistant at a large law firm in New York. One night, she invites Michael- a coworker- for dinner at her...

It is summertime, and Masao is a lonely boy living with his grandmother in Tokyo. One day, he finds an address supposedly belonging to...

After their car becomes stuck on a causeway, two gangsters named Dickey and Albie find themselves stranded on the remote island of...

It is the 1970's and Julio is a young man from the island of Marinduque. Searching for his long-lost girlfriend Ligaya, he travels to...

There are few directors whose films have sparked as much rumination and analysis as Ingmar Bergman. His cinematic creations, utterly...