The lurid fascination of the school shooter film
Other films instead approach the subject with more ambiguity, even perverse fascination. Films like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) insinuate near-universal teenage experience
Gentle Monster – first-look review
Four years ago, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer went from the high of a Cannes Film Festival full of rave reviews of
Tangles – first-look review | Little White Lies
Sarah Leavitt (Abbi Jacobsen) is caught between two worlds. On the west coast of the United States, there’s the life
Forever Your Maternal Animal – first-look review
Valentina Maurel’s testing drama about a pair of estranged sister who reunite under difficult circumstances sadly falls back on repetitive
The Diary Of A Chambermaid – first-look review
“Capitalism,” the writer Rayne Fisher-Quann recently semi-joked, “makes women of us all.” That is, subsumes our own agency, expropriates our labor,
Colony – first-look review | Little White Lies
In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one
A Girl’s Story – first-look review
French filmmaker Judith Godrèche sadly has unique insight when it comes to the lifelong trauma of sexual violence and your
Paper Tiger – first-look review
When Uncle Gary (Adam Driver) arrives at his brother’s family home in Queens, it’s in a shiny black Mercedes with a fleet
Atonement – first-look review | Little White Lies
In 2012, just under a year after the end of the Second Gulf War, New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins wrote
La Libertad Doble – first-look review
In the year 2001, the Argentinean filmmaker Lisandro Alonso kinda created a blueprint for a new form of hybrid cinema with his