Author: Tomris Laffly

Chantal Akerman’s seminal Jeanne Dielman (1975) is a film made up of in-between, throwaway moments we are usually robbed out of in popular cinema.

“For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy,” the great Roger Ebert once said. “It lets you understand a little bit more…

Midnight Special, the latest sci-fi/drama from writer/director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter), is a story of fatherly love and sacrifice at its foundation. Knowing that…

From Kim A. Snyder’s Newtown to Stephanie Soechtig’s Under the Gun, the 2016 film festival circuit thus far launched a number of timely features and…

With the ever-extending awards season well behind us, it’s time to look ahead without distractions and shift our focus on discovering brand new titles from…

Perhaps because we have all been looking forward to putting it all behind us, the 2015 awards season already feels like a distant memory. But…

Oscilloscope Pictures Ciro Guerra’s stunning and elegiac Embrace of the Serpent is at once a quiet lament and a subtle blast of umbrage in equal…

You need to hand it to the team behind How To Be Single for packaging, at least on paper, a Valentine’s Day-aimed rom-com/female buddy comedy…

As I was putting together my year-end lists last December, I was alarmed that only two features among my top 10 –The Diary of a…