Retrospective: ‘Almost Famous,’ still holding us closer 20 years later
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 20 years since Almost Famous came out. A critical success but a commercial failure, it was nevertheless... Read More
Film Reviews
Venice Review: The children are our future in effective and fearless ‘Greta’
Some documentaries take its subject matter to heart which also involves probing and delicately unfolding it at the same time. Others are so determined to... Read More
Film Review: Another take on the delirious brilliance of ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
“’Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ That’s an Oscar Wilde quote.” And... Read More
Fantasia Review: Bryan Bertino is back with ‘The Dark and the Wicked,’ a masterful supernatural horror
“Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto the horror scene with The Strangers, a divisive film... Read More
Film Review: Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ describes the indescribable
Categorizing Charlie Kaufman’s new Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things as horror would be a mistake. In fact, labeling Kaufman’s latest to any genre,... Read More
Fantasia Review: ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’ is a wicked coming-of-age tale
It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s below is a settlement that looks 100 years in the... Read More
Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s time-bending ‘Tenet’ is his most challenging film yet
In the canon of Christopher Nolan films, Tenet is the same thing in reverse, and that’s not a bad thing SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS... Read More
Film Review: Jayro Bustamante’s ‘La Llorona’ (2020), an absorbing examination of an untold history and the politics of horror
The Guatemalan genocide, or the “silent holocaust,” is the setting for director and writer Jayro Bustamante’s new film La Llorona–not to be confused with the... Read More
Fantasia Review: ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’ is a Masterful Ode to Movie Lovers
“I saw it in a movie” is something everyone has said at least once, and it’s this phrase that’s the essence of Sam Quah’s feature... Read More
Film Review: ‘Sputnik’ is better red than dead
A feast for hypochondriacs, Sputnik asks the question, “What if that tickle in the back of your throat is actually a parasitic alien life-form that slithers out... Read More
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