Marcel the Shell isn’t a perfect film, but in expanding a 2010 Internet gimmick to humorous and heartfelt feature length, it proves surprisingly refined, and a…
There are pockets of interest to be found in Paradise Highway, but its mediocre mashup of genre and weak character work ensure that it never rises…
It’s perhaps become a moot point to invoke the shadow of Apichatpong Weerasethakul when talking about an emerging festival filmmaker’s work in the 21st century.…
Competitive speed stacking — a sport that involves stacking specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as quickly as possible — is the eccentric pastime at…
There’s one very well-executed scene in mainland Chinese indie director Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger: Ma Qianli (Jun regular Zhang Zhiyong), a one-time-successful real estate mogul…
Fifty years ago, Chen Kuan-tai stepped out from the background as an extra and stuntman in Chang Cheh’s stock company to take the lead role…
A wealthy man is deemed the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman after he is found in a hotel room with her…
Manchurian Tiger There’s one very well-executed scene in mainland Chinese indie director Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger: Ma Qianli (Jun regular Zhang Zhiyong), a one-time-successful real…
Thirteen Lives delivers an immersive, impressively reconstructed telling the famous Thai cave rescue, but the film sags a bit when it comes to interrogating the seemingly…
Alex’s War is both more and less interesting than knee-jerk reactions would have it, but director Moyer undoubtedly understands that a fascinating subject is the…
It’s the stuff of a million shoddy programmers from Hollywood’s golden age and twice as many cheap exploitation films from the heydays of the ’70s,…
The city of Bristol has a reputation which far proceeds itself. Known as a grungy site of resistance, from the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963…
With Not Okay, Shephard succeeds at crafting an unlikable female protagonist that feels true to our world and a film unafraid to reflect that world…
Vengeance suggests plenty of potential in its genre-mixing premise, but frustratingly shakes out exactly as you’d expect at every turn. It feels like the idea…
Hansan features plenty rousing naval action, but also drags in its first half and too baldly leans on a propagandist view of history to establish its…
Inu-Oh Masaaki Yuasa simply can’t be stopped — or at least that’s what it has seemed like for the past two decades, during which the…
It goes without saying that Japanese anime is a permanent part of the international cinephilic sphere. There are many reasons why the appeal and success…
One of the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival’s archival presentations is the new restoration of Wong Jing’s 1982 film Mercenaries from Hong Kong. Already here at…
Mickey Reece’s Country Gold also stars the director as country music artist Troyal Brux (clearly modeled, at least visually, on Garth Brooks, whom Reece vaguely…
Yoon Seo-jin’s debut feature Chorokbam opens ominously. After an aging nightwatchman (Lee Tae-hoon) investigates the loud meowing he overhears, he makes a grisly discovery on…