Neshoma (2024) ‘Hot Docs’ Movie Review: Richly Imaginative and Wistful Account of Jewish Community Pre-Holocaust
Sandra Beerends’ “Neshoma” is an invocation of a bygone era, lives endured and lost, by turns wondrous and affecting. A…
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Superboys Of Malegaon (2025): Faiza Ahmad Khan & Nasir Shaikh’s Cinephilic Legacy Finds Home In Bollywood & Beyond
Shot in Nashik, Reema Kagti’s “Superboys of Malegaon” opens with a wistful ode to Malegaon—a town steeped in nostalgia. Its…
Higher Than Acidic Clouds (2025) ‘Visions du Réel’ Movie Review: Ali Asgari’s Plaintive, Searching Doc on Artistic Repression and Resistance
Ali Asgari’s “Higher than Acidic Clouds” opens in closed spaces with an eye to the boundless. Asgari’s voice can’t be…
15 Great Movies About Caste Discrimination, Dalit Resistance, And Ambedkarite Politics In India
Cinema in India has long mirrored the country’s social hierarchies, often reinforcing dominant-caste narratives while rendering Dalit experiences invisible. Yet,…
The Town That Drove Away (2025) ‘Visions du Réel’ Movie Review: Searing Portraits of Displacement and Erasure
Stories of displacement are as ancient as time itself. They are inscribed in the annals of civilization, inextricably linked to…
Warfare (2025) Movie Review: A Brutal, Uncompromising Procedural About The Banality of War
The opening scene of “Warfare” (2025) features a group of largely interchangeable soldiers staring with lurid curiosity at the infamously…
To the West, in Zapata (Al Oeste, en Zapata, 2025) ‘Visions du Réel’ Movie Review: Piercing, Contained Doc Mines the Tension of Survival
David Bim’s “To the West, in Zapata” has one of the most arresting first chapters of any film playing at…
Intimacy in The Digital Age: Spike Jonze’s “Her” as a Cinematic Mirror to our Technological Present
In 2013, as we were still getting used to smartphones transforming into extensions of our hands and minds, director Spike…