Author: Sarah Williams

The Christmas rom-com is a subgenre that’s blended together long enough. With seemingly never-ending Hallmark-centric lists like Christmas movie posters with white heterosexual couples wearing…

In Jessica M. Thompson’s The Light of the Moon, a woman rediscovers intimacy with her boyfriend after she is raped while walking home. The film…

If It Were Love is filmed theater, and by filmed theater that does not mean the stage, but the process, the transitions, and the trying…

Unlike his previous Golden Bear recipient Fire at Sea, supposed Italian master Gianfranco Rosi’s follow-up Notturno feels like a shallow adventure through a war-torn world….

While it rehashes plenty of tried-and-told horror stories in places, The Wolf of Snow Hollow is commendable for its intense familiarity. The warm Christmas carols,…

Our teenage years are essentially made up of mimicry. We leave the nest of our parents, flocking together, or perhaps to another, taken under the…

A home movie calls to mind childhood memory. They’re time capsules, going back to an age before we know the truth about the world we…

Blue may be the most popular of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois Couleurs trilogy, made during the renowned Polish filmmaker’s final years in France. But the following…

You are going to die tomorrow. There is no question, but no rationalizing it either, just an unwavering certainty that tomorrow’s sunrise will be your…

When we think of auteur collaborative projects, bits of film pieced together from the finest filmmakers of the era sharing a common theme, we think…