Film Festival Today

Supergirl (Craig Gillespie, 2026) 1 out of 5 stars It’s tough finding novel ways to tell superhero stories these days, given the 21st-century glut in the movie market, so kudos to anyone trying their best to say something new. Unfortunately, originality does not emerge from surface retooling of genre tropes but rather from inventive writing […]

Couture (Alice Winocour, 2025) 2 out of 5 stars Angelina Jolie is not to blame for the failings of Couture, the latest (and sadly, disappointing) feature from French writer/director Alice Winocour, whose previous films Proxima and Revoir Paris I very much enjoyed. Indeed, there is not enough of Jolie, her character just one of three […]

School for Defectors (Jeremy Workman, 2026) 5 out of 5 stars After its occupation by Japan from 1910 to 1945, the Korean peninsula was divided between its northern and southern halves, the former under Soviet rule and the latter under the United States. Over the ensuing 5 years, each half pursued different forms of government, […]

With Funk, Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (Private Desert) crafts a love letter to “putaria,” the kinky funk music of the favelas surrounding Rio de Janeiro. That genre is unabashedly sexual in its lyrics and themes, often in very explicit fashion. With gleeful abandon, its practitioners—at least as we see them here—rap and sing about all […]

Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg, 2026) 5 out of 5 stars Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) is back and exceeds expectations in his latest science-fiction piece, Disclosure Day. At first glance, I was hesitant to believe that Spielberg could drop yet another sci-fi masterpiece, seeing how saturated his career is in the genre, and how […]