A traditional haiku is anchored around the invocation of nature's most ubiquitous objects and occurrences. Thunder, rain, rocks, waterfalls. In the short poems, the complexity of these images, typically taken for granted, are plumbed for their depth to meditate on…
Dec 13, 2025
Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, is one of those rare literary-to-film transitions that feels both delicate and vast—an intimate portrait delivered on an epic historical canvas. With Bentley co-writing alongside Greg Kwedar, the film becomes…
Dec 13, 2025
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Pluribus Episode 6. It may be hard to believe, but we're actually heading into the final third of Pluribus' first season — although if you've been eagerly awaiting each new episode of…
Dec 11, 2025
Truth is slippery, community secrets curdle, and even good intentions sour fast in Tulsa’s heat. That’s the world of “The Lowdown,” FX’s new neo-noir comedy from Sterlin Harjo (“Reservation Dogs”), where conspiracy shadows every handshake and no father, citizen, or…
Dec 11, 2025
A movie where Edward Cullen and Katniss Everdeen have a baby would be a much bigger deal if Die My Love came out in 2012. Robert Pattinson has come a long way since his Twilight days. Even as the face…
Dec 9, 2025
In 2003, Quentin Tarantino hadn’t made a film in six years. After the films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, 1997’s Jackie Brown showed the restraint of Tarantino, in the only film he’s ever directed based on existing material, and with…
Dec 9, 2025
In Julia Jackman's 100 Nights of Hero, storytelling is a revolutionary, feminist act. Based on Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel (in turn based on the Middle Eastern fable One Hundred and One Nights), it is a queer fairy tale with a…
Dec 7, 2025
Sisu: Road to Revenge arrives as a bruising, unflinching continuation of Aatami Korpi’s saga—one that embraces the mythic brutality of the original film while pushing its protagonist into a story shaped as much by grief and remembrance as by violence.…
Dec 7, 2025
Earlier this year, when accepting the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet gave a speech where he said he was “in…
Dec 5, 2025
A gripping descent into personal ruin, the oppressive burden of cursed family baggage, and the corrosive bonds of brotherhood, Netflix’s “Black Rabbit” is an anxious, bruising portrait of loyalty that saves and destroys in equal measure—and arguably the drama of…
Dec 5, 2025