Valerie Complex

Sundance Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’ wants to get rid of toxic in community

Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie in director Emerald Fennell’s PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Courtesy of Focus Features) Revenge is a dish… Read More

January 28, 2020

Sundance Review: Justin Simien’s ‘Bad Hair’ day

Yaani King Mondschein, Elle Lorraine, and Lena Waithe in Bad Hair by Justin Simien (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) At nine… Read More

January 24, 2020

Cannes Review: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ is passionate, unconventional lesbian cinema

Adèle Hanel and Noémie Merlant in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire (photo: MK2) Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of… Read More

May 26, 2019

Cannes Review: ‘Atlantique’ Puts a Creative Spin On A Tragic Love Story

Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival Atlantique, the first feature from director Mati Diop is a cinematic puzzle worth putting… Read More

May 23, 2019

Cannes Review: Gaspar Noé’s ‘Lux Æterna’ makes a mockery of its own message

Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lux Æterna (© Gaspar Noé) Is Gaspar Noé's Lux Æterna a big middle finger… Read More

May 21, 2019

Cannes Review: ‘Bull’ has good intentions but feels all too familiar

Amber Havard and Rob Morgan in Bull from Annie Silverstein (photo: Cannes Film Festival) First time feature director Annie Silverstein… Read More

May 16, 2019

Review: ‘I Am Not a Witch’

I Am Not a Witch (Sundance) In Nigeria, within Keats State, a Goat was arrested as an armed robbery suspect.… Read More

March 28, 2019

Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You’

Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson in Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You (Annapurna) Coonery, buffoonery, toxic masculinity, feminism, identity, and… Read More

March 28, 2019

Review: ‘Assassination Nation’

Abra, Odessa Young, Hari Nef and Suki Waterhouse appear in Assassination Nation by Sam Levinson (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) In… Read More

March 28, 2019

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