Screen Rats

A s the title of Manuela Martelli’s directorial debut suggests, the year is 1976, and Chile is suffocating under the nightmare that is Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.…

I n an early scene in Road to Perdition, 12-year-old Michael (Tyler Hoechlin) is asked by mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman) to retrieve his jacket from his study. On …

T he short form is the primary cinematic blueprint and foundation for emerging filmmakers to make their first steps in the industry and hone their directing skills bef…

A detective travels to a wind-swept mountainside village surrounded by sensuously waving grass to investigate a murder, and gradually falls for the dead guy’s femme f…

O f the uncountable images gifted to the world by Jean-Luc Godard, the one that stands out as perhaps the most purely beautiful is the moment from Vivre Sa Vie when An…

T he year is 1995. A 26-year-old Atlanta-based stage director named Tyler Perry figures he should get some more irons in the fire while he repeatedly retools his strug…

P eter Farrelly returns to the scene of Green Book ’s triumphant world premiere with another heartwarming story of how a doofus achieved personal growth by encounterin…

T welve-year-old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a young gymnast tirelessly training for an upcoming competition, but is mostly desperate to appease the impossibly high exp…

I n 1970, J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK. This anti-novel has had a complicated publication history: all 15 of t…

G len Powell is a cocky sumbitch. Playing with the boys in ensemble films and the girls in rom-coms, and most especially as Top Gun: Maverick ’s Hangman, he seems like…

M idway through the world premiere screening of Susie Searches, I sat as hot, electric colors slashed across the screen, as zany, canned sound effects erupted from the…