Film Festivals

‘Mama’s Boy’ review: Dustin Lance Black doc just barely balances line between being uplifting and a stilted vanity project | NewFest

In 2009, at the age of 34, Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for his screenplay for the Harvey Milk… Read More

October 17, 2022

‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ review: Little to love beyond Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell’s performances in Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s listless adaptation | LFF

A spirit of thoughtless anachronism looms over Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Netflix’s crude and cynical attempt at seeing… Read More

October 17, 2022

‘Inland’ review: Mark Rylance enchants in this realistic yet enigmatic folklore-influenced directorial debut from Fridtjof Ryder | LFF

English writer-director Fridtjof Ryder's directorial debut is a taut, well-made micro budget feature. After a successful crowdfunding campaign and production… Read More

October 16, 2022

‘No Bears’ review: Jafar Panahi turns the camera on himself in powerful, subtly playful examination of limits personal, political and artistic | LFF

The remarkable prolificacy of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and the even-more-remarkable spirit of subversiveness that has only burgeoned in his… Read More

October 16, 2022

‘Nanny’ review: Predictability hobbles what could have been a fascinating take on the horror of trauma | LFF

It is both the blessing and the burden of just about every modern horror movie that it must be about… Read More

October 13, 2022

‘The Stranger’ review: Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris face off in this taut, unnerving Australian detective drama [B+] | LFF

Thomas Wright’s Australian detective drama stars Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, and it’s a gripping film that is unconventionally delicate.… Read More

October 12, 2022

‘Blue Jean’ review: Georgia Oakley’s searing feature debut is a remarkably poignant British drama of the viciously homophobic Thatcher era [A] | LFF

It’s 1988 in Tyneside, North East England, and Margaret Thatcher has been Prime Minister for a year when the conservative… Read More

October 10, 2022

‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’ review: A joyous, magical, fun-filled adventure [B+] | LFF

The opening frame of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical is startling, absurd, as animation-like rays beam off of newly born… Read More

October 7, 2022

‘On the Fringe’ review: Juan Diego Botto’s directorial debut with Penélope Cruz is an ambitious but fractured effort [C] | Zurich

Juan Diego Botto’s directorial debut pulls no swings when it comes to social realism, it is a restless drama that… Read More

September 28, 2022

‘Mister Organ’ review: Obsession take centerstage in David Farrier’s twisted documentary about an insidious liar [B] | Fantastic Fest

The job of an investigative journalist is to dive deep into the fray, willing to get their hands dirty to… Read More

September 26, 2022

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