While The Mitchells vs. the Machines doesn’t live up to obvious touchstone The Incredibles, it rides its own humorous and referential wavelength to mild success. While less an homage to superhuman wisdom and superheroic strength…
Separation is yet another slog from director William Brent Bell, a logic-less and unscary bit of low-bar horror filmmaking. Director William Brent Bell has been responsible for some of the schlockier horror flicks of…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or into some DVD bargain bin assuming that those still…
Things Heard and Seen might not thrill horror purists, but its terror-flecked study of domesticity and religion both recalls genre giants and remains mostly fresh. According to Shari Springer Berman, who co-directed Netflix’s newest…
Berlin Alexanderplatz fails to build to any climax that would justify its length, instead spinning out into infinity and confusing circuity for world-building. If Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz — one of the…
Sharrock’s middlebrow approach and sitcom-ready style undermines much of Limbo‘s potential power. About a decade ago, Serge Daney’s then recently-translated essay “The Tracking Shot in Kapo” began making the rounds in cinephile circles. Like…
Without Remorse is a delicious throwback to a time when a sturdy shoot-em-up was its own reward. Streaming services have absolutely become a pipeline for direct-to-video offerings, cheap rom-coms, and prestige dramas that would…
- by InRO Staff Festival Coverage Film
New Directors/New Films 2021 — Dispatch 1: Films We’ve Already Covered
It’s been only a short four months since the postponed 2020 edition of New Directors/New Films wrapped up, but the fest is back on schedule in 2021 (only slightly delayed from its usual late-March…
Four Good Days occasionally flirts with authenticity and pathos, but is mostly content to crank up the melodrama and hammy acting to deadening effect. The end credits to Rodrigo García’s addiction drama Four Good…
About Endlessness is a gentler than usual work from Roy Andersson, one that reflects humanity’s ability to create both great beauty and profound suffering. Those complaining that Wes Anderson’s movies all look the same have…
The Disciple‘s diptych structure creates a mature, nuanced portrait of the weight of personal and professional compromise. Sharad Nerulkar — the titular disciple in Chaitanya Tamhane’s sophomore feature — is, by most accounts, unexceptional.…
The County foregoes nuance of character and narrative in favor of a feel-good construction. I don’t know much about the history of the co-op farming system in Iceland — which began in the 19th…
