‘Mint’ Review: Ambition Outpaces Impact in ‘Snapper’ Director Charlotte Regan’s Stylish BBC Crime Drama Series [C+] Berlinale
After the breakout success of Scrapper, her acclaimed indie debut starring Harris Dickinson, the bar for Charlotte Regan’s next project was inevitably set high. That... Read More
Berlin Film Festival
‘17’ Review: Kosara Mitić’s Devastating Debut Exposes the Cost of Silence and Complicity [B] Berlinale
There are films that portray sexual violence as isolated tragedy and then there are films that examine the systems that make such tragedy possible. With... Read More
‘Flies (Moscas)’ Review: To Be a Fly on the Wall is to See All in Fernando Eimbcke’s Quiet Family Drama [B-] Berlinale
It begins with the buzzing of a fly. That thin, nerve-fraying sound that slices through the silence and refuses to disappear. Flies are tiny invaders,... Read More
‘The Blood Countess’ Review: Isabelle Huppert’s Glamorous Vampire Mother Rises Above Baroque Bungle [C-] Berlinale
Isabelle Huppert glides through an underground grotto as if she is about to launch a global tour. A neon-red boat slices across the dark waters... Read More
‘At the Sea’ Review: Amy Adams Gasps for Air in Film Desperate to Drown Her Under the Weight of Water [C] Berlinale
Amy Adams gazes just past the camera. Her expression is tired, hollow, as if any additional emotion would already be too much. In this extended... Read More
‘Take Me Home’ Review: Liz Sargent’s Intimate Caregiving Drama Confronts a System Built to Fail [B-] Berlinale
Over the past decade, Sundance has increasingly become a home for films that resist spectacle in favor of proximity. That sensibility now finds an extension... Read More
‘Rose’ Review: Sandra Hüller Commands the Screen in Gender-Bending Period Piece with a Towering, Career-High Performance [A-] Berlinale
Smoke hangs heavy over the scorched earth. In the distance, cannon fire rumbles like the aftershocks of a catastrophe that has long since occurred and... Read More
‘Mouse’ Review: Sophie Okonedo and Katherine Mallen Kupferer Shine in Tender Portrait of Grief and Growing Up [B+] Berlinale
It is the summer of 2002 in a suburban corner of Arkansas. Dust dances in golden light, toilet paper flutters from treetops after a teenage... Read More
‘What Does That Nature Say to You’ Review: Hong Sang-soo’s Latest Remains Disarmingly Observational Yet a Touch Out of Focus [B] – Berlinale
South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo is losing his sight as he ages into an old man. For many directors, this would cement their retirement, but... Read More
‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Radu Jude’s Homage to Rossellini Finds the Director at his Most Humanistic if a Bit Expected [B-] – Berlinale
To call Romanian director Radu Jude a diagnostician of our times would not be an overestimation. Moreso, his rich body of work resonates with audiences... Read More
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