Born again: Phạm Thiên Ân’s hypnotic debut feature Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell is a formally breathtaking meditation on faith and a testament to cinema as a vehicle for miraculous transformation
Signs of the times: the most useful films for this moment of labor unrest in the film industry are those made in close connection with the workers on the front lines
Child’s play: Ari Aster’s latest living nightmare, Beau Is Afraid, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a stunted, paranoid mama’s boy, caught up in a roller coaster of horrors and is not quite as interesting as one would hope