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With Dead Man’s Wire in theaters, we look back on the filmmaker’s history of taking a unique approach to thorny material pulled from real-life news headlines.

It’s the way that Clint Bentley shows the subject’s entire life—in moments rather than scenes, in swirling Malick-esque vignettes—that engulfs the viewer.

Whether or not it represents John Darnielle’s earnest Broadway aspirations, the indie-folk band’s 23rd LP stands out for its amped-up orchestration and sweeping grandeur.

The cosmic Ohio band’s sprawling fifth album represents the best of the late-’00s indie-folk scene, with Zac Little proving that he very much earns his suspenders.

With the delusional male figure taking center stage in the writer/director’s ninth film, we get to the bottom of what exactly is wrong with all of these goddamn men.

Mike Figgis’ under-the-hood look at Francis Ford Coppola’s bizarro epic Megalopolis is a documentary that doesn’t know what it wants to be about a movie that didn’t know what it wanted to be.

Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

Digging into the all-encompassing allegory, obsession, and physical and psychological beatings of the director’s near-30-year career—and how Caught Stealing struggles to fit into all of that.

Rooted in the horrors of our familiar pre-apocalypse, writer/director Julian Glander’s animated film blends the simple charms of an 8-bit video game with sketch-comedy chaos.

Defined by its air thick with hopeful yearning, the Oakland-based songwriter continues to find comfort in doing things on her own with her fifth album.

The filmmaker discusses his multiple approaches to profiling Stephen Malkmus, the “inscrutable” figure at the center of his new project.

Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

With his directorial debut, Andrew DeYoung answers the question of whether Tim Robinson’s familiar comedic formula can be sustained over the course of a feature film.

Joel Potrykus’ bleak buddy comedy is perhaps his most compelling work yet for how big a hole he’s willing to blow in his characters’ flimsy facades.

Backed by the incredible team he’s assembled over the years, Mike Hadreas’ seventh release is a folk album that remains as slippery, electrifying, and brilliantly unknowable as its lead single.

An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Dan Hoff and Mark MacCormack discuss having their “Return of the Jedi moment” as they get set to play their first US shows at SXSW after backing out of last year’s fest in protest.

Part clever slapstick comedy, part social commentary, part sci-fi creature feature, Bong Joon-ho’s latest remains full of life as it kills it off.

With 2025 marking the first time in 27 years that all five filmmakers nominated for the award are first-timers, we look back at the movies that initially made them.

Although compositionally impressive, the didactic personal lore of Trevor Powers’ fifth album ultimately upsets the controlled momentum this project has long been defined by.