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
At sea: Tsuchimoto’s docs about the pollution crisis in Minamata, Japan are must-see case studies for a contemporary world faced with its own “disasters of disinvestment“
Hot air: Alejandro G. Iñarritu’s semi-autobiographical fever dream, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is essentially an overstuffed, self-indulgent concoction
Dig it: the happenings at Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet remain as strange and bitingly funny as ever in The Kingdom Exodus, the anticipated third season of Lars von Trier’s series
Industrial strength: the new mega-sequel struggles with both the loss of its predecessor’s leading man and the roteness that afflicts any entry in the self-perpetuating Marvel Cinematic Universe
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