Michael Atkinson

At 82, David Cronenberg continues to bring his visual and narrative wit to bear on the flesh and bones of existence. 

First-timer Ryan J. Sloane fashions a murder mystery that delves into Jersey at its Jersey-est.

Miguel Gomes tells a farcical love story that ping-pongs between colonial history and a tour you might embark on tomorrow.

Fleur Fortune imagines a not-distant-at-all dystopia of government agents acting like impulsive, wandering, puking, pooping toddlers.

Quebec filmmaker Philippe Lesage’s isolated-lodge drama plants narrative grenades amid spectacular wildlife.

Film Forum presents the long unseeable tale of sunbleached Tuesday Weld trapped in L.A.’s existential shade. 

Director Frederik Louis Hviid’s heist film is frantically stylish, but ends up as half-assed as its perps. 

Drew Hancock’s tale of a murderous robotic love doll might become a cherished B-movie by the time we hit Trump’s sixth term in office.

This oh-so-21st-century “movie” lives in an uncanny valley of gaming, role-playing, stage acting, and wanton killing.

Isao Fujisawa’s outlaw road movie riled the age of Nixon with a trans hero.