"Unlike the flagrant, flighty temporal jumps of Amiko, which skips across an entire year within its first half hour, Desert of Namibia follows, at least initially, a more conventional timeline, beginning with a slow zoom-in on 21-year-old Kana (Yuumi Kawai) as she ambles along an elevated Tokyo walkway. When she arrives at a coffee shop, her friend exclaims that a former classmate has taken her own life. Kana seems disinterested, and eventually the film's focus turns briefly to an adjacent…

"From its title on down, Henry Fonda for President both follows along and defies the idiosyncratic, sweeping aims it has set for itself. The filmmaking debut of longtime film critic and Austrian Film Museum director Alexander Horwath takes its name from the plot of an episode of the obscure sitcom Maude, and while it’s never meant as a completely sincere political statement, it sums up the aspirational tone of both the actor’s most beloved work and the impossibility of concrete…

"I don’t usually like to make my life and background the focus of my reviews, since my general inclinations are to let my observations assume their personality from what I choose to write about and to not interfere with the text itself. But Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once begs for me to consider it in light of this. There are certain aspects of myself that, for various reasons, I can’t bring into this piece, but suffice…