Movies: Ari Aster

Using human corpses and invoking the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State, a girl performs a ritual to free the kingdom of Chile from its feudal heritage....

A solitary hitman's new job catches a detective's attention, leading both to discover unexpected similarities between them....

Described as a “big” existential horror animation that Hertzfeldt has been working on for 15 years....

A bright but acid-tongued young actress walks the viewer through the drudgeries of her privileged life in a series of clinical tableaux....

A featurette that sheds light on the filmmaker’s approach, and how he turned a character-driven domestic drama into one of the 2018’s most harrowing cinematic experiences....

A feature adaptation of Masha Ko’s Sundance short of the same name. When a virtual home assistant speaker picks up the strange noise a man has heard in his house, he realizes that it may not be a symptom of dementia....

A journalist takes on an underworld of crime and changes television forever....

A high-stakes action film set against the backdrop of feudal Japan....

In the following conversation, recorded remotely in 2020, filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster discuss the mission, evolution, and ongoing work of The Film Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving motion-pictu...

A coddled kid takes off for NYC where he joins forces with an old friend to produce a terrible Broadway play....

The feature length directorial debut of Michael Cera. It has been described as "a family story with a sort of mystery element too, with a somewhat science-fictional thread throughout it."...