‘Pachinko’ review: Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung delivers a breathtaking performance in this epic tale of immigrant resilience [Grade: A-]
Min Jin Lee’s sophomore novel Pachinko is a stunning book about the life of a three-generation Korean family living in Japan during World War II.... Read More
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TV Review: The secrets and lies of a mother highlight Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote crime drama ‘Pieces of Her’ [Grade: B-]
Back at the university, we had a class about family history, going back to our roots, and discovering our ancestors. Many stories we learned about... Read More
‘The Batman’ review: Robert Pattinson delivers the definitive take on the caped crusader in Matt Reeves’ brooding, epic comic book crime thriller [Grade: A]
Evolution is the change of characteristics or attributes over time that builds upon the past iterations to create something better than we’ve experienced before in... Read More
‘Three Months’ review: Troye Sivan’s return to acting is in a coming of age movie with real potential [Grade: B-]
Three brutally slow, painfully lethargic months is how long Caleb (a flourishing Troye Sivan), the young Jewish man at the heart of this coming-of-age movie,... Read More
Berlinale 2022 review: Charlotte Gainsbourg shines in ‘The Passengers of the Night’ from Mikhaël Hers [Grade B-]
The Passengers of the Night opens with a title card announcing the date: May 10th, 1981. In recent French history, that day marks the election... Read More
‘Uncharted’ review: Tom Holland is more than game but this joyless adaptation should have stayed in development hell [Grade: C-]
You would think adapting a video game is an easy task. The blueprint is already made as many playable works, especially those of modern times,... Read More
Berlinale 2022 review: Vincent Lindon and Juliette Binoche are bursting with love-drenched lust in Claire Denis’ love triangle drama ‘Fire’ (aka ‘Both Sides of the Blade’) [Grade A]
A chance encounter, a glance in the right direction while flicking your hair, and it cannot be unseen: it is your former lover who you... Read More
Berlinale 2022 review: In ‘Taurus’, Machine Gun Kelly exorcizes his stardom [Grade B+]
Almost a decade after Memphis (2013) depicted the spiritual journey of musician Willis Earl Beal, filmmaker Tim Sutton returns to the sombre world of music... Read More
Berlinale 2022 review: François Ozon’s ‘Peter von Kant’ plays out as an ambitious but flat homage to Fassbinder [Grade C-]
It’s been 50 years since Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant premiered at Berlinale and to mark this anniversary, prolific French... Read More
‘Marry Me’ review: Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson find love in a hopeless place and we get the first big surprise of 2022 [Grade: B+]
Based on the graphic novel by the same name, Marry Me starts to tell the story of pop superstar Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez) and boyfriend... Read More
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