First time director Ariane Labed almost makes this darkly gothic tale work but fumbles its tricksy reveal.
Continue readingSeptember Says (2024)
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Dahomey (2024)
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The Holdovers (2023)
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Like tragic little rich boy Tully (Dominic Sessa), Alexander Payne traps us in a weirdly quaint version of 1970s white America with little contemporary insight.
Continue readingA Man (ある男) (2022)
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Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised/disappointed that a film with this title revolved primarily around the experiences of a group of men.
Continue readingMy Second Year in College (Sale Dovom Daneshkadeh Man) (2019)
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Rasoul Sadrameli creates an interesting exploration of gender and friendship in contemporary Iran.
Continue readingBad Behaviour (2023)
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I was intrigued to see Alice Englert’s first feature, particularly as it’s stars Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw and, hopefully, the New Zealand people and landscape.
Continue readingCharcoal (Carvão) (2022)
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The Eternal Memory (2023)
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Maite Alberdi allows us to travel back-and-forth through the life of writer Augusto Góngora. Part of the documentation and reconciliation after Chile’s fascist junta, his own memories are now scattering with Alzheimer’s.
Continue readingPerpetrator (2023)
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“Perpetrator perp-perpetrator, you’re a perpetrator.” The beats of Britney Spears’ Womanizer oddly fit this chaotic, feminist body horror by Jennifer Reeder.
Continue readingPictures of Ghosts (Retratos Fantasmas) (2023)
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Kleber Mendonça Filho takes us on a slow, self referential meander through his home suburb of Recife in Brazil and the history of its cinemas.
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