Even though, to many audiences today, the eclecticism of live-action and animation may appear as a sort of a postmodernist achievement in the realm…
This latest Ninja Turtles product is a narratively lazy and formally chaotic bit of empty IP. As long as one doesn’t stubbornly insist on…
It goes without saying that Japanese anime is a permanent part of the international cinephilic sphere. There are many reasons why the appeal and…
Hallelujah doesn’t quite strike the right balance between portrait of the artist and myth of the song, but its littered pleasures will likely still be…
It may be a hasty judgment, but as soon as we see a young woman painting on a canvas, smoking a cigarette positioned in…
Jerry and Marge Go Large presents its larger-than-life tale with restraint and sincerity, imbuing its caper framework with the tenderness of a Christmas comedy. If…
Lost Illusions is a lush, ravishing work that avoids the lethargy and empty aesthetics of so many literary adaptions and fully embodies the spectacle…
Terence Davies’ Benediction is beautifully melancholic work, one that bursts benevolently onto the screen with immense feeling. The cinema of veteran English auteur Terence…
Throughout modern history, pop and rock music have certainly played a crucial role in a broader socio-political history. Filled with joyful and energetic dynamism,…
Call him what you want: a legend, heir to true Hollywood classicism, an egocentric industry black sheep, a man of his own mark who…
Poser is an ambitious work that pushes contemporary indie filmmaking out of its familiar comfort zone, doing so with authenticity and creative aplomb.. In…
If one were to point to a contemporary French filmmaker who has most consistently tried to redefine the rom-com genre’s infrastructures within the broader…
Il buco is a rich, poetic film that seeks to articulate man’s existence both within and in tension with nature. Through a constant fusion…
Kinetic films that depict their restless women protagonists either in quenchless quest for their dreams or in non-stop endeavor to clear various obstacles should…
After releasing a trio of mildly successful albums, with even their eponymous third album almost entirely ignored by critics due in no small part…
A deeply spiritual, even existential, odyssey that mingles numerous contradictory forces into a striking whole, The Tale of King Crab is certain to be remembered…
A-ha: the Movie is a pure trifle, not always substantial but capable of casting viewers back into a distinctly ’80s mood. Before childhood friends…
Mothering Sunday fills its frames with striking images and gorgeously appointed spaces to the point of mind-numbing banality. There’s a certain kind of film, one…