Wouldn’t it be ‘nice’ if everyone would just die?

Carlos Reygadas’s Transgressive Vision of a World Unmoored

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Satire of Corporate Power Digs Its Own Grave

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The film proves again that that clarity in a Carlos Reygadas project comes from the reverberative qualities of his sounds and images.

This is a purported cri de coeur against our billionaire overlords, but somehow it still manages to be a shameless Tom Cruise ego stroke.

Les Gamins Non Stanno Bene

Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Moving Drama About the Virtues of Camaraderie

James Gray’s Frighteningly Operatic Portrait of a Family on the Brink

The elemental bleakness of Hamaguchi Ryusuke's 'Evil Does Not Exist' shifts to a more cosmic benevolence in his latest.

James Gray's oeuvre is so shaped by a long-gone and over-mythologized era of American filmmaking that it often flirts with insularity.

Flower of My Sucrets™

Na Hong-jin’s Exhaustingly Frenzied, Wonky-Looking Alien-Invasion Thriller

Time Out New York Project: Issue #890, January 10-16, 2013

The heinous modern instinct to franchise cinema into oblivion apparently knows no borders in this world…and all others.

Time Out New York Project: Issue #890, January 10-16, 2013

Time Out New York Project: Issue #890, January 10-16, 2013

Time Out New York Project: Issue #889, December 27, 2012-January 9, 2013

Time Out New York Project: Issue #889, December 27, 2012-January 9, 2013

Time Out New York Project: Issue #889, December 27, 2012-January 9, 2013