Sugar Season 2 Review: A Noir With a Telescope It Barely Uses
Sugar Season 2 picks up a question Season 1 detonated and then declines to answer with any real conviction. The...
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A protest photograph asks for a strange kind of stillness: the world is burning, and yet the face must hold. Shoot the People, Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary about British-Nigerian photographer Misan Harriman, understands that paradox before it understands everything else. Its strongest images come from that pause between motion and memory, where a crowd becomes a face, a slogan becomes a wound, and the camera becomes a moral instrument that cannot heal what it records. The film follows Harriman through the U.K., the U.S., South Africa, and pro-Palestinian protest spaces, charting the rise of an artist whose work went viral during...

A coal road across the Gobi can look like a national biography when Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig lifts his camera above it. The trucks in Colors of White Rock move in long, stubborn lines toward China, carrying black cargo through a desert that once belonged to herders, yurts, and livestock trails. The image is simple enough to grasp at once: a country’s older mobility has been absorbed into a newer one, and the new one runs on extraction. Choijoovanchig’s documentary follows Maikhuu Sengee, one of Mongolia’s rare female coal truck drivers, across several years of work, family rupture, illness, pregnancy, and debt....

Thirty-three condemned souls rushing across a divine battlefield should feel impossible to organize, and the best thing about 33 Immortals is that it often does. Thunder Lotus Games takes the raid fantasy usually trapped behind guild calendars, voice chat, build guides, and weekend-length commitment, then squeezes it into a 30-to-60-minute roguelike run where strangers learn to survive through motion, timing, and panic. That is a huge shift from the studio behind Spiritfarer and Jotun, two games remembered for intimacy, melancholy, and hand-crafted myth. 33 Immortals keeps the visual elegance, then throws away the quiet. You play as a soul condemned...

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist rushing to Japan because a prehistoric man has been spotted in the sewers is the kind of sentence streaming anime was built to say with a straight face. Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai Part 2 understands the absurdity of its own premise, then treats that absurdity like state business, complete with laboratories, press briefings, underground fight promoters, and men so muscular they look like national infrastructure. The 12-episode back half of Netflix’s Musashi arc picks up after Part 1 introduced Baki Hanma’s boredom, Tokugawa’s Underground Arena, and the cloned resurrection of legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. Part 2...

The ship never sounds empty, which is part of the trap. Metal groans, wind presses against the hull, ice snaps under the vessel, and every corridor seems to carry a secret from one cabin to the next. Rodrigue Jean’s Labrador: Autopsy Of Silence takes a murder at sea and strips away the usual satisfactions of the whodunit. The body matters. The killer matters. What matters most is the pressure placed on the person least protected by the world around him. That person is Alupa Tulugak, an Inuk mechanic played by first-time actor Christopher Angatookalook. He works aboard the Adeawiktak, a...

The parking lot may be the most honest character in Ponderosa. It sits there, wide and blank, absorbing the dead time of people who have no clear reason to be anywhere else. Rob Rice’s black comedy understands that modern suburbia does not need fog, haunted houses, or expressionist corridors to become uncanny. It only needs a buffet restaurant, a construction site, a few men with money, and a young person too tired to resist their ideas about the future. Zeke (Jack Dylan Grazer) drifts through a drab Illinois town with the soft inertia of someone raised inside endless options that...
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Read moreA protest photograph asks for a strange kind of stillness: the world is burning, and yet the face must hold. Shoot the People, Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary about British-Nigerian photographer Misan...
A coal road across the Gobi can look like a national biography when Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig lifts his camera above it. The trucks in Colors of White Rock move in long,...
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist rushing to Japan because a prehistoric man has been spotted in the sewers is the kind of sentence streaming anime was built to say with a...
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