The Moral Fission of Oppenheimer
It’s fitting that Oppenheimer feels so contradictory, because the film is fascinated by such contradictions.
Davy Chou’s Transcendent Return to Seoul Embodies the Modern Search for Identity
Davy Chou’s film is about lives not lived and not by chance. It’s about the lives we live as we try to define what life means.
You Hurt My Feelings and the Fallout of Little White Lies
Left to our tendencies toward comfort, we often use each other’s love to insulate us from the harshness of the world: we hide behind false encouragements.
White Noise: Modern Rituals and Plastic Wrapped Religion
White Noise skewers our comforts by offering a skewed view of our modern society.
A Hope Beyond Utopia: Rescue, Restoration, and the Flight from North Korea
The documentary follows North Koreans who make the treacherous attempt to flee the country, and the care and sacrifice of those trying to help them escape.
The Fabelmans, Aftersun, and Seeing Our Parents in a Truer Light
At the center of both The Fabelmans and Aftersun are characters reflecting on their childhood, looking to better understand who their parents were.
Kogonada’s After Yang Imagines a Way Beyond Tech Consumerism
After Yang offers a refreshing, compassionate perspective on how technology might make our world more human instead of less.
Intolerable Silence or Uncanny Attention? Memoria and the Nature of Existence
The subterranean dread of Memoria comes from the possibility that our attention may alight on things unexpected, unwanted, and unwelcome.
Keeping Time with Tár and Being Summoned by Your Future Self
Lydia Tár is shaped by the abuses she’s gotten away with and aimed toward a future that sustains the power of her position.
