Reviews

A new glossy remake is the first feasible argument for our southern neighbor to pay for building a wall: to keep Hollywood hacks out of the country.

Kings of their world: a doc about two dogs and a skate park reveals the accretion of remarkable details that make up daily life

Parallel histories: Garrett Bradley's remarkable short interrogates representations of early Black filmmakers

Ecstasy and extraterrestrials: Slamdance surprises with a coming-of-age story and an alien invasion

Astral traveling: The spirit of Afro-futurism is beautifully embodied in the all-star collective The Ummah Chroma's short film

Nuri Bilge Ceylan casts his attention onto the trials and tribulations of youth in his latest Chekhovian effort.

The air up there: Steven Soderbergh discovers yet another profession whose practitioners’ for-hire physiques stand in for the gig-to-gig economics of his own creative hustle.

Unidentifiable filmic object: a den mother and her brood navigate a dystopian future in this unclassifiable film screening February 8 in Film Comment Selects

All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

(Lukas Dhont, Belgium/Netherlands, Netflix, Opening January 18)