Film
 Experience Required American Animals |
Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep, which is screening at Halwalls on Thursday, June 21.
Our contributor Ed Grant talks to director Olivier Assayas about his celebrated satire of modern filmmaking. |
 In this film adaptation, Chekhov’s subtleties and singular mix of ambiguity and pointedness are often flattened by technique |
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed.
Paul Schrader’s new picture seems very personal, carefully and even painfully achieved for much of its length. |
Toni Colette in Hereditary.
Three new films whose endings force you to reconsider everything that came before them. No spoilers, though. |
Brady Jandreau in The Rider.
One of the best parts of writing about movies that you occasionally come across a film that moves you when you weren’t expecting it. |
 It’s the origin story that never needed to be told… |
Cinnamon Schultz in Goodland.
A farmland noir, a Wim Wenders documentary, and Juliette Binoche. |