Fifteen years after starring in “Chloe,” Amanda Seyfried has re-teamed with Canadian director Atom Egoyan for another daring, psychosexual film that resists easy explanation. Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and “Seven Veils” is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma
Geremy Jasper’s “O’Dessa” is an earnest misfire, an original rock musical that the “Patti Cake$” director claimed, in his introduction at SXSW, he had been working on for seven years. Watching it, though, it bears all the hallmarks of something that was originally conceived in high school, possibly even earlier. It’s a YA fiction proj
Mimi Cave’s “Holland” is a lifeless affair, a film that defies genre categorization not by virtue of doing too much but because it does almost nothing at all. On paper, it will sound like a thriller, but it’s a film that feels so consistently self-aware that it lacks actual tension. It will also sound like something that needs a dark streak
If they were to give an Oscar this year for casting directors—and they really should—I would get behind an FYC campaign for Avy Kaufman, a legend in the business who completely nails every role in the fun and gruesome “Death of a Unicorn.” Writer/director Alex Scharfman’s script is clever, but this truly feels like the kind of project tha
There was a long moment where it looked like the Chinese martial arts drama “100 Yards,” a commanding period actioner set during the mid-1920s in Tianjin, might not be released here in North America. That was a little more than a year, to be fair. Still, it felt longer, especially if you followed the good word of mouth generated at internationa