On the grind: Mark Asch, Beatrice Loayza, and Devika Girish get together for an epistolary exchange about the thoughts and, yes, feelings elicited by Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Let there be light: in the radiant One Fine Morning, Mia Hansen-Løve conveys an auto-fictional tale of grief and new love with disarming and affecting sincerity
Look again: the first film from the Nobel–Prize winning author engages Ernaux’s career-long fascination with photography to tell the story of an disintegrating marriage
Cold hearted: Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an astute examination of the eternal failure of colonial projects when self-absorbed outsiders are tasked with getting to know the world beyond themselves
Memory lane: the visionary filmmaker, painter, and musician discusses his remarkable life and career on the occasion of a retrospective of restored films at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Homebound: our critic digs into a new and alternative streaming service for experimental and artist-made films that includes a healthy selection from the Canyon Cinema catalog
Eyewitness: with Saint Omer, Alice Diop offers a brilliant examination of all that cannot be elucidated about the “clawing duality that haunts so many Black people the world over”
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