Perhaps more well-known as a former Cahiers du Cinéma critic and the frequent co-screenwriter with the likes of Jacques Rivette, André Techiné, and Chantal…
In Mona Achache’s Little Girl Blue, actress Marion Cotillard first appears as herself. As Achache gives her a wig, brown-colored contacts, perfume, a cherished…
There’s a mystery at the heart of writer/director Iris Kaltenbäck’s debut feature film The Rapture, but unlike the reams of true-crime documentaries and adjacent…
Death hangs over the first moments of The Temple Woods Gang, the riveting seventh feature from French-Algerian filmmaker Rabah Ameur-Zaimëche. Grizzled military retiree Pons…
Toward the end of Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition trilogy (1959-61), his unsparingly brutal anti-war epic about the Japanese military’s unsparingly brutal treatment of…
Following nearly three years of an ongoing pandemic, everyone has a new understanding of isolation. After varying degrees of social distancing regulations and masking…
RETROSPECTIVES #STRIKEGERMANY BERLINALE COUNTERPROGRAMMING: WRITINGS ON SELECTED WORKS FROM THE PALESTINIAN FILM ARCHIVE ARTICLE: Over Their Dead Bosies & The Upper Gate [Arab Loutfi]…
The elevator pitch for Spaceman sounds like the wind-up to a bad joke. Here’s a somber metaphysical tone poem wherein a scrappy Czech space…
As Mel Gibson’s star was rising in the 1980s, he was becoming increasingly self-destructive. By the peak of his fame in the ’90s, he…
Despite being full of traditional Western tropes — including images of riding horseback through the dusty American plains and violent shootouts in dingy taverns…
The “social issue” film in contemporary Bollywood has as many forms of expression as it has sub-categories of issues. Take, for instance, the “women-centric”…
Dutch director Sacha Polak set a very high bar for herself with Hemel, her 2012 debut feature. Raw and at times agonizing, Hemel is…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be…
In Ghosts of My Life, the late writer Mark Fisher writes, about hauntology: “Those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be…
Keir O’Donnell is chiefly recognized as an actor, arguably best known for his supporting turn in 2005’s Wedding Crashers, in which he played a…
Ah, just what 2024 moviegoers needed: another rural crime-thriller rumination on God, Family, and Violence. Red Right Hand, the latest from Ian and Eshom…