Violent Night isn’t nearly as nuts as it needed to be, regrettably boasting both a confused tone and bloated length. It’s been a whopping 34…
“Sr.” is complex and surprising in its construction, its focus at the crossroads of love and folly and the man who constantly put them on…
“A nation that doesn’t know its past, has a dull present and a future shrouded in fog.” So opens Alon Schwarz’s newest participatory documentary film,…
Bar Fight! manages the impressive feat of being entirely unfunny for the whole of its runtime. The graveyard of sitcom stars who attempted a move…
Lady Chatterley’s Lover makes the mistake of relying heavily on its source material’s action without understanding either its playfulness or seriousness. A Reader’s Digest gloss of…
Your Christmas or Mine? is a totally misguided holiday film with no emotional stakes or rooting interests to be found. Yuletide romance Your Christmas or Mine?…
Corridors of Power is rooted in ideological ambivalence and provides a platform for imperialist voices to design history around their perspective. Israeli documentary filmmaker Dror Moreh,…
2nd Chance operates in the same unappealing blunt-force register as Bahrani’s narrative works. Ramin Bahrani, once again, has something to say about the state of the…
Return to Seoul is a film guided by its director’s steady hand, boasting a generous script and tethered to a fantastic lead performance. A hurried glance…
Nanny promisingly begins as an unsettling study in neoliberal microaggressions but sadly slides into standard-gauge horror tomfoolery in its second half. Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny is the kind…
Christmas with the Campbells angles for a bawdy send-up of the Hallmark holiday rom-com, but fails to strike a successful balance. With literally hundreds of holiday-themed…
Four Samosas cribs too liberally without any understanding of how to integrate such influences. At the risk of seeming belligerent or otherwise unfair, Ravi Kapoor’s sophomore…
In pushing viewers past the limits of reality, The Eternal Daughter more vividly than ever paints the loss and alienation undergirding Hogg’s cinema. “No live…
A Wounded Fawn is a delightfully weird and lo-fi work of playful horror. There’s not much left to do with serial killer narratives these days, but…
Hunt proves too twisty for its own good, failing to deliver on the promise of its early going. Hunt, the directorial debut feature of actor Lee…
In recent years, Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet was the site of most of the major Danish royalty’s births. Last year, it was ranked the 15th best hospital…
In his introduction to Olivier Assayas’ autobiographical essay/memoir A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord, Adrian Martin writes that “Assayas has always identified himself with…
The Menu is a poor attempt at satire that fails to develop anything more than the shallowest of ideas. Let’s quickly take stock: Triangle of…
S:INEMA is a lushly produced and confidently fluid record that goes a long way in asserting SAAY’s unique artistic character. Although the average K-pop fan…
White Noise regrettably sees Baumbach prioritize shallow spectacle and satire over human passions. “The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation,” eminent Car Crash Studies…