Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director ...

You walk into a movie theatre, settle into your seat, and the film begins. Everything feels familiar – until a character looks directly at you and starts talking to you. If that weren’t enough, they ...

Before he became the pickpocket and prison escapee immortalized as Mack the Knife in Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera,” Jack Sheppard was a nervous kid trying to talk to a sex worker at a pub. Or so Jordy ...

If you’re not familiar with the concept of metafiction, Jeff Kramer’s new novel, “Mud Season,” is a great introduction. Kramer is a former newspaper journalist in Syracuse who previously had beats in ...

In his continued crusade against people with epilepsy, the auteur filmmaker that is Gaspar Noé is back with a new film that also happens to be an old film. Lux Æterna is a work that was once thought ...

The gripping true story of a Tunisian mother whose two elder daughters joined ISIS is overlaid with fictional, self-analyzing elements in fascinating if not always convincing ways. Often, Olfa, Eya ...

Jailed director Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself, forced to shoot his new film in a town near the border with Turkey As Iranian women rise up against their misogynist bullies, this is a good ...

Pony Island begins innocently. Treacly music, art from a '90s flash game aimed at your niece. I press "Start Game." The loading screen "breaks," and before I know it I'm embroiled in a struggle for ...