Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado's 'Forgotten Island' exuberantly draws from a vast, under-explored ocean of Filipino mythology.

Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime is far from a sober-minded or deadly serious examination of the hard truths behind some of the ...

18 days. 113 films. This year's New York Film Festival lineup is so invitingly rich that you'll actually want to see everything.

This modern reimaging's sense of the characters' interiority dissolves rather than resolves across the running time.

Early in James Gray’s 1986-set drama Paper Tiger, there’s a sublime image of the Pearl family—engineer father Irwin (Miles Teller), brash mother Linda (Scarlett Johansson), and their sons, Scott ...

A contemplative work of slow cinema, 9 Temples to Heaven is the second feature by Sompot Chidgasornpongse, who’s served as Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s assistant director for over two decades. But ...

Bruno Dumont’s career since his hard swerve into absurdist comedy in 2014 with Li’l Quinquin has been fascinating to behold. Encompassing two Joan of Arc musicals, a media satire starring Léa Seydoux, ...

When William Greaves invited the “living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance” to Duke Ellington’s apartment in 1972 to document a meeting of the minds, he surely couldn’t have expected a ...

With sweet brio and an electrifying depiction of its world, Jordan Firstman’s feature directorial debut, Club Kid, feels no need to reinvent the wheel of movies about losers who’ve yet to grow up.

An abandoned car. A cooler of unopened beers. As the camera traces the forest clearing where two lovers came together in the heat of passion, we hear them dying violently—their gurgling, their last ...