Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016) opens with a colorful explosion of improbability: a traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway transforms...

A yellow Volkswagen bus driving away into the void of a California sunset. Cut to black.  The final scene of Little Miss Sunshine is...

Following Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece, Parasite , Mickey 17 is awkward, messy, and moralizing. Parasite ’s social criticism feels like a...

*Spoiler-heavy—not that people are racing to stream this wildly cerebral, game-changing, avant garde-Netflix original. Netflix’s 2021...

Somewhere between a photograph and a dream, La Jetée lives. It doesn’t move like a film, but it feels more alive than most. Chris...

This fall, fellow Columbia Sophomore, Francesca Carillo, and I excitedly took our seats at the 62nd New York Film Festival to see Luca...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is filled with stunning visuals allegorizing the politics of fascist Italy, as well as precise...

Set in 1990s Cuba, Los Frikis tells the story of reserved 18-year old Gustavo (Eros de la Puente) and his rebellious older brother, Paco...

Sean Baker’s Anora is a riveting Cinderella-esque tale following the romance between Ani, a Brooklyn sex worker, and Ivan, the son of...

Spectacularly entertaining and hilariously violent, Quentin Tarantino’s award-winning 2012 Western Django Unchained succeeds with flying...

Once on board and settled in on an airplane, it is quite common for travelers to shuffle through the never ending list of films available...

Megalopolis managed to force its way through my cinema firewall mere minutes after its premiere at Cannes earlier this year. Videos of...

"You dream in a language I can't understand. It's like there's this whole place inside you I can't go," says Arthur to his wife, Nora, in...

The 2000s marked a shift in America’s television appetite. Shows like The West Wing (often dubbed as liberal political porn), which...

Gen Z was raised on the dystopian story. We were utterly entranced by Divergent , The Maze Runner, and of course The Hunger Games , all...

Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach conveys the anxiety of young dreamers who feel directionless while people around them follow paved paths to...

Comedy often offers the best outlet for social critique. Gary Alazraki’s 2013 film “Nosotros los Nobles” exemplifies this practice. In...

Poor Things (2023) , directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, takes the viewer into a world that resembles a Salvador Dali painting more than our...

Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”  has got to be one of the most misunderstood songs about America.  "Born in the U.S.A." was...

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It all begins with an idea.</p>