Ghost Elephants (2025) Documentary Review: A Poetic Look into a Wildlife Expedition that Highlights the Cultural History Behind a Mythical Creature
One thing that always fascinates me about German filmmaker Werner Herzog is the amount of curiosity he brings to every…
A Prayer for the Dying (2026) ‘Berlinale’ Movie Review: A Spiritually Exhausted Look at the End of the World
There’s a particular kind of film that hands you a catastrophe with no hope in sight and expects you to…
The Bulldogs (2026) ‘Slamdance’ Documentary Review: A Beautifully Shot, Elegiac, but Oddly Apolitical Look into a Rural Community’s Survival
The one thing that grabs your attention almost immediately in “The Bulldogs” is its eye for beauty. One of its…
Zumeca (2026) ‘Slamdance’ Movie Review: A Well-Meaning but Vapid and Overexpositional Analysis of Indoctrination and Exploitation
David Maler’s “Zumeca” (2026) revolves around the birth of the New World (the Americas) and the transitional period that led…
Bruges as Purgatory: A Moral Landscape for the Damned
I travelled to Bruges in my younger days. I drank the beer, ate the waffles, and snapped pictures of the…
Model Minority: How ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Policed Blackness
On Monday, February 16th, Netflix added to its robust history of successful content by releasing its docuseries titled “Reality Check:…
When Reason Becomes a Voice: Masculinity and Power in ‘Alphaville’
There is something quietly tender in the way Jean-Luc Godard’s “Alphaville” (1965) constructs its dystopian world, and this tenderness becomes…
Only Rebels Win (2026) ‘Berlinale’ Movie Review: Hiam Abbass, Luminous As Ever, Lifts A Well-Trodden Transgressive Romance
Danielle Arbid opens her latest, “Only Rebels Win,” with a wry admission. The film was shot in France, standing in…