2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Laura Bispuri’s powerful and affecting ‘Daughter of Mine’
Synopsis: A drama centered on a girl who is living a seemingly happy life with her parents who raised her only to then find herself... Read More
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2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Cedric Kahn’s superbly acted and engaging ‘The Prayer’
Synopsis: A heroin addict enters a religious rehabilitation center far in the mountains in hopes of liberating himself from addiction. There he experiences religion, friendship... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Benoît Jacquot’s ‘Eva’ starring Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert is contrived and unconvincing
Synopsis: A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm. Benoît Jacquot’s EVA is a revenge thriller that... Read More
2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’
Synopsis: When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he... Read More
‘La Mas Dulce’ Review: Laïla Marrakchi Gives Visibility to Morocco’s Invisible Workers [B] Cannes 
‘Garance’ Review: Jeanne Herry’s Underwhelming Alcoholic Actress Vehicle Deters the Turbulently Brilliant Adèle Exarchopoulos [C] Cannes 
‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Gets the Flowers Herself in Modern Day ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ [B+] Cannes 
‘Full Phil’ Review: Kristen Stewart is in Peak Form in Quentin Dupieux’s Manic Father-Daughter Comedy [C+] Cannes