Now playing the Cannes Film Festival, the new film from the director of The Square embarks on a luxury cruise that goes to hell.
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All Men Are Evil, According to This Film
In yet another horror movie that’s actually about trauma, writer-director Alex Garland makes his points bluntly, having one actor play many facets of misogyny.
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David Attenborough Guides Us to the Time of the Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Planet is visually ambitious, but the docuseries often fails to contextualize those visuals for the curious viewer.
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Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule
From 1968 to 1973, the Nihon Documentarist Union did radical documentary work in Japan. They made two films in Okinawa before, during, and after its reversion.
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The Tsugua Diaries is More than an Arthouse Summer Hangout Movie
The plot of Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s film moves backward in time, continually recontextualizing what at first looks like a simple situation.
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How Hollywood Has Helped Colonize Hawaiʻi
Anthony Banua-Simon’s documentary Cane Fire contrasts decades of Hollywood images of his home with its current reality.
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Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit’s Flooded Basements
Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
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Documentary Workers Unite Against the Odds
We spoke with workers at the International Documentary Association about their successful fight for a union.
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A Body Horror Tale With an Avian Twist
Hanna Bergholm’s stunningly original debut film Hatching embraces the experience of female adolescence as the monster that it is, and then gives that monster literal wings.
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Panda! Go Panda! Classics Make a Delightful Comeback
You don’t have to be an anime-head to appreciate these early-career shorts by the founders of Studio Ghibli.
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Pleasure Dispels Male Fantasies of Porn
Ninja Thyberg’s film replicates a common plot structure for classic porn as it follows a young performer entering the business, but its focus is on the labor involved.
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A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does
MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.