Film Review: Respire - Mélanie Laurent
The alternately sensitive and blistering coming-of-age thriller's tumultuous core relationship ultimately collapses into a climax of cold contrivance.Actress-turned-director Mélanie Laurent takes a...
View ArticleFilm Review: Cemetery of Splendour - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A culmination of the drolly understated poetic surrealism that brought the director international acclaim, the film's warm humanity and densely suggestive imagery collectively influence and deconstruct...
View ArticleFilm Review: Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
An underwhelming narrative entangled in the mild humor of hackneyed mid-life crisis, the stop-motion film proves Kaufman's gifts are more suited to immense theatrical sandbox than domestic and office...
View ArticleFilm Review: Knight of Cups - Terrence Malick
In the latest film in Malick's late-career period of prolificacy, the director turns his attention to Hollywood.At one point in Knight of Cups, the newest feature in Terrence Malick's period of...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Forbidden Room - Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson
While slightly overlong, this surreal montage film synthesizes a broad range of silent and sound artifacts in rapturous, volcanic eruptions of pure cinematic curio.The end-result that iconoclastic...
View ArticleFilm Review: Right Now, Wrong Then - Hong Sang-soo
This self-reflexive parallel timeline variation on the meet-cute offers invigoratingly light and accessible consideration of gender perspectives and human adaptiveness.Hong Sang-soo's latest cinematic...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn
Refn's morbidly satirical exposé of the fashion industry and competitive world of modeling is more cinematographically inspired but substantively underwhelming kitsch.Nicolas Winding Refn's latest...
View ArticleFilm Review: Some Beasts - Cameron Bruce Nelson
The Appalachian drama of a romantic couple weathering physical separation tenderly renders poetic truths about diverging paths in life and the meaning of family.Regional and spiritual authenticity of...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Club - Pablo Larraín
This inquisitive, unnerving chamber drama, which culls from the sexual abuse scandal within the Catholic Church, is dulled by conflicting messages of forgiveness and vengeance as well as the...
View ArticleFilm Review: Certain Women - Kelly Reichardt
The film perceptively elevates Meloy's Montana-based short stories in examination of serendipitous intersections that progressively delve deeper into the details of four working women's lives.In its...
View ArticleFilm Review: 20th Century Women - Mike Mills
Strengthened by a sophisticated autobiographical screenplay, the film's poignant and warmly amusing scenes capture an enriching spectrum of resilient personalities in 1979 Santa Barbara, CA.Mike Mills'...
View ArticleFilm Review: Under the Silver Lake - David Robert Mitchell
Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell's follow-up to It Follows, sees Andrew Garfield on a comically convoluted quest around the surreal nooks-and-crannies of Los Angeles.As crowded and...
View ArticleFilm Review: Brightburn - David Yarovesky
Inspired by the Superman mythos, Brightburn promises to subvert the conventions of the superhero genre before succumbing to threadbare horror clichés.“From producer James Gunn, visionary director of...
View ArticleFilm Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a bloated, self-indulgent tour of Quentin Tarantino's fetishes.Let's start with the good before I get to the bad and the ugly. Quentin Tarantino's latest art-schlocker,...
View ArticleFilm Review: Parasite - Bong Joon-ho
Once again reflecting on social classes and bending genre to his will, Bong Joon-ho lives up to the hype of his Palme d'Or winning tragicomedy, Parasite.Bong Joon-ho treats genre like Dr. Frankenstein...
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