Film Reviews

‘Emily’ review: Emma Mackey breathes life into Frances O’Connor’s passionate and incredibly fitting biopic of Emily Brontë [A-] | Toronto

In her editor’s note to the novel Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Brontë described the book as “moorish, and wild, and knotty… Read More

September 11, 2022

‘The Kiev Trial’ review: Sergei Loznitsa’s latest dip into the archives explores the banality of Nazi evil in Ukraine [B-] | Venice

On Venice’s Lido island, documentarian Sergei Loznitsa was greeted like an exiled novelist, or an ex-political prisoner finally able to… Read More

September 10, 2022

‘Autobiography’ review: Makbul Mubarak’s debut feature is a harrowing tale of lust for power and deeply rooted corruption [A-] | Toronto

Rarely do debut features feel as confident as Makbul Mubarak’s Autobigraphy, an electrifying, bold and heartbreaking film that sends an… Read More

September 10, 2022

‘Siccità’ review: Paolo Virzì’s Italian apocalyptic satire sinks its teeth into the pandemic, climate change but bites off more than it can chew [C] | Venice

It’s immediately visible that Siccità, or Dry, is setting a grand stage for an incisive comment on the dire nature… Read More

September 10, 2022

‘The Blue Caftan’ review: A groundbreaking LGBTQ film of MENA cinema [A-] | TIFF

Maryam Touzani’s second feature breaks major ground for Arab cinema with a bold, absorbing and heartbreaking ode to love. For… Read More

September 9, 2022

‘Pinocchio’ review: A wooden imitation of the classic [C-]

Pinocchio (voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) in Disney's live-action PINOCCHIO (Photo courtesy of Disney) The best and most interesting Disney… Read More

September 8, 2022

‘Saint Omer’ review: Alice Diop’s affecting story about motherhood is a stunner [A] | Venice Film Festival

It’s November 2013, and in the small town of Berck-sur-mer, in northern France, a 15-month old baby is found dead… Read More

September 7, 2022

‘Bones and All’ review: Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet are fine young cannibals in Luca Guadagnino’s gory, romantic road-mance [A-] | Telluride Film Festival

Director Luca Guadagnino is working on levels of comfort, or discomfort, most directors take their entire career to find. His… Read More

September 7, 2022

‘The Son’ review: Florian Zeller’s sophomore effort disappoints despite a great Hugh Jackman [C+] | Venice Film Festival

Florian Zeller’s stage trilogy about parent-child relationships and the devastating consequences of mental illness was one of the biggest surprises… Read More

September 7, 2022

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