Berlin Review: Céline Sciamma’s ‘Petite Maman’ starts a tender new chapter in a life cycle of girlhood
Céline Sciamma has a tradition with names. Water Lilies‘ Marie, Girlhood‘s Marieme, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire‘s Marianne all share variants of the... Read More
Film Reviews
Berlin Review: Things left unsaid makes Hong Sangsoo’s minimal ‘Introduction’ sing
The Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo shook up last year’s Berlinale competition with the unexpected comedic notes of the otherwise pensive The Woman Who Ran, a... Read More
Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’
It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts as early of approximately 3200... Read More
Film Review: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ is a personal, pulse-pounding adventure
Kumandra, the setting of Raya and the Last Dragon, is fictional, but it is also not. It is not on any map, but one can... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Swept Away’ and ‘Chicago’ (2002)
“More than any other example in recent memory, Chicago shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today’s movies.” – Mike Clark, USA... Read More
Film Review: ‘Tom & Jerry’ somehow makes New York less interesting with animated characters
There’s maybe one scene in all of Tom & Jerry that at least partly measures up to the catchy formula of the Hanna Barbera cartoons.... Read More
Film Review: Keith Thomas’ debut ‘The Vigil’ is a visceral, shomer scare
You can’t run away from your past. Your past is always there, over your shoulder, like the monster in a scary movie — spin your... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Freddy Got Fingered and A Beautiful Mind (2001)
“This film not only left me with an incredible sense of dread for the 80 minutes of my life wasted on this repulsive experience, but... Read More
Film Review: ‘Silk Road’ is a true-story crime drama that is weirdly short on both
In one of the earliest scenes of Silk Road, a scraggly-bearded Nick Robinson half-heartedly perks up from his bed to address a radiant Alexandra Shipp... Read More
Film Review: ‘To All the Boys: Always and Forever’ wraps up the cozy trilogy with a few new hearts to break
In many ways, To All the Boys: Always and Forever feels like a love letter addressed to its own series, which has been an unlikely... Read More
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