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”
Drink it in: James Cameron’s much-hyped, space-whale opus seeds the franchise with a militant environmentalism that sets the film apart from similar feats of entertainment engineering
Tall tales: the light of Steven Spielberg’s cinema is both illuminating and disillusioning, and in the autobiographical The Fabelmans, the auteur subjects himself to its glare
Mirror image: Joanna Hogg’s latest—featuring Tilda Swinton in a mesmerizing double role—reimagines British gothic horror with specters both familiar and familial
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