Aleppo, Syria, 2025. A bombed out shell of its former self. Ten years prior, it was a flourishing city filled with bustling markets, food stalls, prayer, and congregation. Co-directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes chronicle that ten year transformation through the lens of Israa, an Aleppo native. Filming for One in a Million began in...
Shot with cinematic flair, Michał Marczak’s Polish-language documentary Closure is a rattling search and rescue: both for an actual missing kid and the soul of the father searching. Following the disappearance of his teenage son Chris, Daniel diligently scours the Vistula River, hoping to either recover his son’s corpse or uncover some hint that he...
You may have heard the headlines before: without immediate intervention, an “environmental nuclear bomb” is set to go off in the Western USA, in Utah. The Lake, an urgent, fact-filled documentary from Utah-native and first-time feature documentarian Abby Ellis, starts by providing an alarming statistic: over half of the water in the Great Salt Lake...
In the winter of 2021, a group of 60 climbers—a mix of professional mountaineers, Sherpas, and an uncomfortably large number of novices on a paid expedition—gather at a Himalayan base camp to attempt one of the last unclaimed feats in alpine sport: summiting K2 in winter. The Last First: Winter K2, from documentarian Amir Bar-Lev,...
Nia DaCosta proves a steady hand in continuing the 28 Years Later story, this time framing it as an ideological battle between two opposing forces: Ralph Fiennes’ atheist humanist Dr.…
Johannes Roberts' brutal—and brutally effective—chimp gone bad horror joint Primate champions unrelenting tension and jaw-dropping gore, making this a January horror movie plenty worth infecting yourself with.
Overlong, repetitive, and dull, 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' commits the cardinal sin of being both excessive and unnecessary, adding little to the Pandora saga and failing to justify a return…
Will Arnett erupts onto the screen as a real dramatic actor in Bradley Cooper’s thoughtfully funny 'Is This Thing On?', a midlife crisis story that tackles themes of commitment and…
‘No Other Choice’ is an expertly constructed social satire from Park Chan-wook that harkens to its South Korean compatriot ‘Parasite’. Come for the bloody thrills, stay for the pertinent message…
Josh Safdie proves he was the chosen one with 'Marty Supreme', a chaos-riddled epic about a scumbag ping-pong player trying to scheme his way into proving that he's the world's…