PETE OHS — ERUPCJA
ERUPCJA—a descendant of the narrated works of Varda, Godard, Rohmer, et al, that delights in and pays tribute to the mythologies we create around the poetry of happenstance—is a chosen-family affair joining the writing and acting talents of Charli xcx,
MASCHA SCHILINSKI — SOUND OF FALLING
Director Mascha Schilinski’s SOUND OF FALLING—an affective incantation of images and narrative voices—illuminates memory’s unreliability with imaginative force and style.
IRA SACHS — PETER HUJAR’S DAY
On December 19, 1974, enlisted by writer Linda Rosenkrantz to describe the previous day for posterity, Peter Hujar accidentally captures an entire world in a few hours of considered recollection—now given elegiac, 76-minute form by Ira Sachs in his moving
AFI FEST 2025 — WE BELIEVE YOU
Centered around a riveting 50-minute custody hearing shot in real time, “We Believe You” is the debut feature from the writing and directing team Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys. Taking on a Rashomon effect as the estranged parents of two
KELLY REICHARDT — THE MASTERMIND
It’s family day at the Framingham art museum: Mom (Alana Haim), dad (Josh O’Connor), chatty precocious son Carl (Sterling Thompson) and his much quieter brother Tommy (Jasper Thompson). So far, so good, except dad is casing the joint. So begins
REBECCA MORRIS — ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
Rebecca Morris’s exhibition at Regen Projects—#34—suitably marks the thirty-fourth of her career as a painter and her first collaboration with the gallery. For the occasion, she made full use of Regen’s expansive space to display thirteen new and exquisite paintings.
OLIVER HERMANUS — THE HISTORY OF SOUND
A note-perfect transference from page to screen, Oliver Hermanus’s new film “The History of Sound” concentrates the promise of its title into an aching minor key.
DANIELLE AGAMI AND ATE9 — SOON AFTER
Danced by Agami and a new iteration of ate9 made up of three male Batsheva veterans, “Soon After” unfolds with a magnetic camp extravagance that decentralizes our focus as it grows into a spectacle of “happening.”
OLIVIER ASSAYAS — SUSPENDED TIME
With comedic precision, SUSPENDED TIME turns the stasis of the recent pandemic years into a time machine, detailing the customs, passions, and neuroses of a pair of brothers quarantined in semi-rural isolation.
JAKE BRASCH — THE RESERVOIR
Josh—a queer, alcoholic, and very erudite NYU college student—has passed out on the beach again. Upon coming to, he thinks he’s on the Atlantic, but soon realizes he’s back home in Colorado. Except he has no memory of how he