‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: Yeo Siew Hua Rivets with Voyeuristic Missing Child Drama | Venice
Singapore is among the most densely populated cities in the world with almost every street under surveillance by CCTV cameras. This is the setting for... Read More
Reviews
‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop Creates a Mesmerizing Artifact of Time Itself | TIFF
How do you tell a story about the return of something precious? About a homecoming? In Dahomey, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin... Read More
‘William Tell’ Review: A Rousing, Old School Hollywood Epic of a Well-Told Story | TIFF
In case you don’t remember the story of William Tell from your school days, Nick Hamm’s new film about the Swiss folk hero opens with... Read More
‘Dead Talents Society’ (鬼才之道) Review: John Hsu Crafts a Hilarious and Deeply Referential Ghost Story with a Big Heart | TIFF
After the critical and commercial success of Detention, it was only a matter of time before Taiwanese filmmaker John Hsu would visit ghosts again. But... Read More
‘No Other Land’ Review: Basel Adra’s Palestinian Doc is a Story of Survival and Resilience and Demands Your Attention | TIFF
I have to imagine that one of the most difficult parts of making a documentary is that when real life writes the plot, you really... Read More
‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2’ Review: I Think We’ve Seen This Film Before and We Still Don’t Have an Ending | Venice
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 made only $36 million at the box office, prompting Warner Bros. to yank Chapter 2 from its original... Read More
‘We Live in Time’ Review: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield Romantic Drama is Less a Tear-Jerker and More Like a Forced Extraction | TIFF
Life affirming dramas or tear-jerking romcoms should do at least one of those things—affirm life, or make you cry a little while amused by the... Read More
2024 Telluride Film Festival Capsule Reviews: ‘Anora,’ ‘September 5,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’
ANORA (dir. Sean Baker, NEON) Mikey Madison is truly an iconic star. As the spunky Ani, an exotic dancer from Brooklyn, Madison owns the screen... Read More
‘Love (Kjærlighet)’ Review: First There Was ‘Sex,’ Now Dag Johan Haugerud’s Middle Trilogy Film Looks for What ‘Dreams’ May Come | Venice
Love, the second film in Norwegian writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy exploring human connections (Sex premiered this year at the Berlinale and Dreams is still... Read More
‘Presence’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Haunted House Drama is Quietly Terrifying | TIFF
Haunted houses are scary, but the hidden personal demons that are common in our modern society are at least just as disturbing. In Steven Soderbergh’s... Read More
Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Named Best Film 
Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Lead 
Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Winners: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Lead 
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Fight It Out