The farcical elements of The Good Boss amusingly build across its runtime, but by the end the film feels a bit too schematic and…
The city of Bristol has a reputation which far proceeds itself. Known as a grungy site of resistance, from the Bristol Bus Boycott of…
The Nan Movie aspires to recreate old sensations, but spills out as a shadow of its former self. Whither, the British comedy? Once, this…
Cop Secret begins with a dubious premise and carries it through to inauthentic and aesthetically false ends. It’s the Icelandic homophobia-baiting comedy you didn’t…
Playground is a penetrating, enveloping, and often brutal portrait of childhood. Playground, Laura Wandel’s first feature, is indeed set on an actual playground, but perhaps…
Dumont’s recent shift into outright absurdity and his exuberant mistrust of form is most thrillingly realized in France, and particularly in Seydoux’s remarkable performance.…
Training for riots in blue and red gear, the police force, as depicted in Il Legionario, are made to look like Rock ‘Em Sock…
“Misfortune departs, grace comes in,” says a villager, as she takes a knife to a Kaffan-leaden woman’s hand. In brightly-lit, glossy handheld, Agata (Celeste…
The forest greens and crumbling modernist estates of the Eastern French town of Forbach provide the backdrop for Softie (Petite Nature), a queer coming-of-age…