‘Return to Seoul’ review: Park Ji-Min’s astonishing turn as a magnetic adoptee anchors Davy Chou’s compelling search for meaning | NYFF
Adoption, as a process, has many intricacies, and one of them is the loopholes it leaves open for someone who has been adopted to later... Read More
Reviews
‘She Said’ review: Maria Schrader goes on the record with an empathetic story of womens’ courage | NYFF
Picture it: it’s 1992 in Ireland, and a young woman in her early twenties walks along the beach only to stumble upon a group of... Read More
‘Halloween Ends’ review: David Gordon Green kills, and takes risks in this soon-to-be-divisive Laurie Strode send-off
Jamie Lee Curtis has been speaking a lot about what this new Halloween trilogy has meant to her, in the wake of Halloween Ends. It’s... Read More
‘Eternal Spring’ review: Daxiong’s stirring visual exploration of religious suppression and memory through comic book imagery
Animation can be a powerful tool for examining difficult topics. That’s especially true for an artist whose life has been so sharply influenced by a... Read More
‘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 trauma. It’s not just an... Read More
‘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. This delicacy in the storytelling... Read More
‘Rosaline’ review: Kaitlyn Dever is delightful in this cheeky take on a Shakespeare classic [B-]
Rosaline is a mysterious character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. She’s never seen, but is mentioned often by Romeo and his friends as the object... Read More
‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton sees double in Joanna Hogg’s mother-daughter gothic ghost story [A-] | NYFF
Late in Joanna Hogg’s exquisite autobiographical b-side, The Souvenir Part II, our protagonist finds herself wandering through a hall of mirrors. Julie Hart (Honor Swinton... Read More
‘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 government enacts Section 28, a... Read More
‘R.M.N.’ review: Cristian Mungiu’s Transylvanian drama reminds us who the real monsters are [B+] | NYFF
In Cristian Mungiu’s drama R.M.N., there is something scary in the woods. Perhaps it is a bear, hungry in midwinter, or perhaps a monster, a... Read More
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