Guy Roditty

Hayley Kiyoko has spent eleven years being called Lesbian Jesus by a generation of women who found themselves in a four minute music video, and Girls Like Girls the feature film is, more than anything, an act of devotion to those people. It is a love letter to a fandom rather than a fully realized film, and once you understand that, almost everything about it makes sense. The bones of the original video are all here. Sun soaked Oregon, a yellow bike with butterfly handles, shimmering pools,...

There is a scene in Tell Me Everything where a twelve-year-old boy sees just enough of something in a public bathroom to understand that his entire world is about to change, and Moshe Rosenthal shoots it with such precise, suffocating restraint that you feel the moment land in your chest before you have even fully processed what happened. This is a film that knows exactly where to look and exactly when to look away, and that discipline is everywhere. The setup is deceptively simple. Boaz is...

No one has ever made a film about weather forecasting before, and somehow, inexplicably, it is one of the most tense things I have watched this year. With Pressure, Anthony Maras has taken a story about a Scottish meteorologist arguing with an American meteorologist over whether it will rain on June 5th, 1944, and turned it into something that had me actually leaning forward in my seat. The fate of the entire Allied invasion of Europe rests on a man reading cloud formations correctly. Cinema....