When wielded effectively, isolation and fear of the unknown can be two surefire ingredients for a memorable horror experience. The former can create a perfect…
Writer/director Alice Maio Mackay is 18 years old; it seems almost obligatory that this be mentioned as her third feature film, T Blockers, premieres at…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Reality Very Rarely Provides a Neat Ending: An Interview with Antoine Bourges by Conor Truax IFFR Roundup Let’s Be In the…
The Book of Solutions Michel Gondry feels like an artist from another time, even if that time wasn’t very long ago. The only movie he…
Michel Gondry feels like an artist from another time, even if that time wasn’t very long ago. The only movie he directed with any real…
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 necklace,…
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 media…
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 (Régis…
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 its…
Following nearly three years of an ongoing pandemic, everyone has a new understanding of isolation. After varying degrees of social distancing regulations and masking recommendations,…
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 program…
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 was…
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” film.…
Dutch director Sacha Polak set a very high bar for herself with Hemel, her 2012 debut feature. Raw and at times agonizing, Hemel is a…
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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 to…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding…