Joel Coen joins the ranks of greats like Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, and Akira Kurosawa by taking on Shakespeare’s MacBeth. It may only have one half of the Coen genius behind it, but The Tragedy Of MacBeth gives the full Coen effect. It’s one of the most visually striking films of the year, and it’s the best Coen’s been since 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis.
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Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson resurrects the San Fernando Valley of the early 1970s in his latest charmer, Licorice Pizza. Blending coming-of-age, hangout, and romantic comedy elements ,PTA pulls from his childhood as well as his past catalogue to create his most enchanting, laugh-out-loud film to date.
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Writer/director Michael Sarnoski cooks up a sublimely subversive three-course meal with his feature film debut, Pig. Although it’s masked as a revenge film, at its core Pig is a profound, genuinely affecting drama that proves that revenge doesn’t always have to be such a cold, violent dish.
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Director Timur Bekmambetov’s latest film, Profile, is an unconventional thriller with real-life roots. Based off the 2015 nonfiction bestseller In the Skin of a Jihadist by a French journalist under the pseudonym Anna Erelle, Bekmambetov pushes the Screenlife format he helped to pioneer (as a producer on Unfriended and Searching) into new terrain, one with more dimension and scarier consequences.
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From Argentine filmmaker Mariano Cohn comes 4x4, a darkly comedic, high concept thriller that is teeming with energy and pizazz. Despite never really moving an inch, this creative, single-location flick is sure to take audiences for a surprisingly wild ride.
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Alexandre Franchi’s powerfully "all-inclusive” sophomore effort, Happy Face, is a challenging affront to the narrow notion of “traditional” beauty that teaches us how to weaponize our subjective flaws. It’s also the most surprising, refreshing, and bizarre ensemble comedy that you’ll likely see all year.
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