The Best Films of 2023
Our best films of 2023 include A-listers exploring new ground or new wrinkles in the familiar, lesser-knowns of singularly surprising work, and gut-punch comedies.
Sophie Barthes
The Ever-Present Future of Women in Sophie Barthes’ Sci-Fi Comedy ‘The POD Generation’
While societies are technologically advancing, Sophie Barthes’ sci-fi comedy The POD Generation offers a cautionary tale about how, spiritually, culturally, and economically we’re “standing still – or moving backwards.”
Sophie Barthes’ ‘Madame Bovary’ Infantilizes Gustave Flaubert’s Protagonist
Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary leaves viewers feeling much like Emma Bovary feels about her life: disappointed.
Sophie Barthes’ ‘Cold Souls’ Queries a Long-Standing Fiction
Sophie Barthes’ Cold Souls explores our belief in a soul, in a self that is stable or coherent over time, thus becoming a sustainable fiction, specifically a fiction that might be projected and consumed.