No Gods Left Exclusives Learning To Love: Herman Yau, Ansonbean, and Anson Kong on We’re Nothing at All "Sometimes you just feel so sad that you want to leave the world and bring some people with you."
Bias Wrecker Always Lalisa Always Lalisa uses many colors to paint a portrait of its titular star, complicating one of the world’s biggest musicians in the process.
Palestinian Cinema Palestine Comedy Club [A] valuable resource in sharing the Palestinian story with the world.
Chinese Cinema(s) Crossing A Dawn Billed as Chungking Express meets Before Sunset, Zhao Badou's first film has a little bit of the magic of both.
Essays Not All Screens Are Made Equal: Local Film Critic’s Go-To Screens (Grand Rapids, Michigan) A look at the different screens in and around Grand Rapids.
The Rapidian You Can See Everything The problem is [there is only one] tool in the toolkit for Fielder and Oppenheim as they are seduced by their own game. And once you see through this formal myopia, you see everything.
Elon Musk Musk This is nose-picking AI: the embarrassing anti-humanness of the “art” is precisely the point. It is also a powerful choice on the part of Gibney to reduce the world’s most powerful man to indistinct AI slop.
Palestinian Cinema Edward Said: Between Worlds Edward Said was brilliant. And Between Worlds is a fitting introduction to his brilliance.
Members only Chinese Cinema(s) We’re Nothing at All Without our connections to one another, we are nothing at all.
No Gods Left Exclusives How to Make Images Hot & Evil Golf Courses: An Interview with Cinematographer Xenia Patricia on Filipiñana "Don't take everything at face value: look beyond the box."
Fritz on Fridays Fritz on Fridays: Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge An essential film in the filmography of cinema’s Odysseus
Paid-members only No Gods Left Exclusives The History of Concrete John Wilson is the Jonas Mekas of the enshittification era.
Korean Cinema The World Before The only assured truth about summer is that it always comes to an end.
The Rapidian 2026 Grand Rapids Film Festival This year’s Grand Rapids Film Festival (GRFF) was an unmitigated disappointment.
Filipino Cinema Filipiñana Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel leverages every ounce of this inherently class-charged symbolic oppressiveness in his scoldingly politically observant debut feature film Filipiñana.
The Rapidian Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour (2026) The Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour brought six films from this year’s festival to Wealthy Theatre.
Gael García Bernal Hombre al agua García Bernal cannibalizes every actor he performs alongside, to the degree that it becomes distracting how multi-dimensional his performance is while everyone around him gets stuck with one-note telenovela roles.
Fritz on Fridays Fritz on Fridays: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is the closest to a Gesamtkunstwerk film that Fritz Lang ever got.
