Screen Rats

T here is a second Massachusetts, nestled in the woods a couple of hours inland from the Ivy League and the sand-and-gravel dirtbags so often entrusted to carry the st…

A cursory scan of this fall’s film festival lineups would suggest that the ongoing immigration crisis has, rightly, claimed a controlling share in European outrage. …

A s Michael Bay spreads his name across a low-angle shot of a cross being engulfed in flame, it’s clear he knows his place in sacrilegious cinema. Bad Boys II (2003) i…

N aked in the steam-filled darkness of the sauna, a group of women unlock unsettling memories and reveal their innermost thoughts. They remember their unfathomable mot…

2 023 has gifted us with two great films about the slippery morality behind a form of violent political activism that skirts the bounds of terrorism. The first was Dan…

R aven Jackson wants you to feel everything. Her feature debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt begins with a close-up of a child’s hand touching the scales of a fish, the…

T he tired Tarantino ur-myth of the working class, self-starting hipster cinephile has suffused modern film culture to the point where the director is now seen as the …

“I tried to make it small,” says director Matt Johnson of BlackBerry, his new tech drama that somehow manages to make the epic rise and equally epic fall of its epony…

“Sometimes, to go forward,” root doctor Beehibe (Okwul Okpokwasili) tells sceptical Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.) in The Exorcist: Believer, “you have to go back.…

W hen the very first iPhone was unveiled in January 2007, it was the technological equivalent of crossing the Rubicon. Nothing was the same after Steve Jobs revealed h…

I n 1973, as the exhalations of fall were beginning to give way to bitter winter, The Exorcist was released upon moviegoers who, agog with apprehension and anxious cur…