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Rating
Title/Year
Author
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Never Look Away (2019)
His "truth" is redemptive and simple...
Posted Dec 30, 2019
2
Midnight Family (2019)
3
The Founder (2017)
With Donald Trump the President-elect of the United States, The Founder acquires new and tragic relevance as a parable for these uncertain times.
Posted Mar 15, 2019
4
The Lovers And The Despot (2016)
5
Cosmos (2016)
Cosmos is a masterful, if at times exasperating, exploration of the concomitant fertility and futility in textual worlds.
Posted Mar 15, 2019
6
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (2016)
If you're looking for insight into this fiercely uncompromising artist, maybe train your unblinking eyes on his art instead.
Posted Mar 15, 2019
7
Kiki (2017)
There is a bittersweet quality to Kiki, with the strength and beauty of those in the scene always offset by the ignorance or fear of those outside it.
Posted Mar 15, 2019
8
The resultant film is an exhilarating, fascinating, and somewhat terrifying meditation on the consequences of connection.
Posted Mar 15, 2019
9
The Children Act (2018)
10
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The Green Fog (2018)
The directors of The Green Fog offer a deliberately sketchy impression of Hitchcock's film; playful and expressionistic rather than strictly mimetic.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
12
People's Republic of Desire (2018)
Wu's mostly glass-eyed filmic observations also allow Desire to remain safely in shallow waters, never truly interrogating its subjects in a way that could lead to revelation.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
13
Good Manners is at its most fascinating when it leaves the old song behind and explores the murky space between pain and ecstasy.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
14
Destroyer (2018)
Hopes were high for her latest, Destroyer, and Kusama has delivered beyond what even her admirers might have hoped.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
15
In Fabric (2019)
16
Tyrel (2018)
Tyrel's refusal to leave the bounds of realism lends it a unique intrigue and unpredictability.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
17
The Price of Everything (2018)
A surface-level farce of the contemporary art market which never truly breaks away... At times, the film gives the impression of a broken record.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
18
Caniba (2018)
19
Nina Forever (2016)
Bodies know things that our brains sometimes cannot comprehend, and Nina Forever is a horror film about learning to listen.
Posted Aug 27, 2018
20
9/10
Baskin (2016)
Baskin at its heart both reveals and revels in the self-defeating, inescapable rituals of masculinity, and the visceral, inescapable horrors that can accompany them.
Posted Aug 25, 2018
21
Graffiti Bridge (1990)
Graffiti Bridge may be far from perfect, but it is also a fascinating film in a number of ways, due as much to its strengths as its weaknesses.
Posted Aug 25, 2018
22
A Woman Captured (2017)
23
Stray (2018)
24
In his debut feature documentary, Salmeron collates an eclectic array of footage into a loving and celebratory portrait of his vivacious and determinedly spirited mother.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
25
The film argues that no life can be reduced to a handful of anecdotes, or a simplistic media image that a living, breathing human being has little hope of living up to.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
26
The Long Season (2017)
As in all his films, the primary interest is in human intimacy - and in The Long Season, that focus is drawn to the intricacies of how the conflict echoes on the small scale...
Posted Jun 28, 2018
27
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, an impressive and intimate look at the impact of paramilitary violence in Derry.
Posted Jun 12, 2018
28
Piercing (2019)
As Piercing aptly demonstrates, desire and ability are two entirely different things.
Posted Jun 12, 2018
29
The Salesman (Forushande) (2017)
The Salesman pulls off a tricky highwire act once Rama's attacker is eventually found...
Posted Dec 27, 2017
30
Women Who Kill (2017)
This macabre innovation upon the romantic scenario is the film's most appealing characteristic, as well as the source of much of its humour.
Posted Dec 27, 2017
31
Train to Busan (Busanhaeng) (2016)
Hurtling along at breakneck speed, Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan tears up the screen like any ravenous zombie horde would human flesh.
Posted Dec 27, 2017
32
Hidden Figures (2017)
33
Call Me by Your Name (2018)
This is not simply a story of an introvert and an extrovert finding love with one another, but a portrait of desire, told with Guadagnino's unique and detailed attention to place.
Posted Dec 27, 2017
34
Highly Recommended
Columbus (2017)
Columbus doles out information in a restrained manner, building rich characters without falling back on exposition, leaving spaces for viewers to fill with their own thoughts.
Posted Dec 26, 2017
35
Ciao Ciao (2017)
36
Ama-San (2016)
Ama-San is a bewitching dive into both family and national history alive with the symbiotic relationship the ama have with their environment...
Posted Dec 18, 2017
37
One Thousand Ropes (2016)
... a poignant rendering of a Samoan indigeneity, adrift and unmoored in urban diaspora of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Posted Dec 18, 2017
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... testament to history's neglect of feminine trauma.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
40
Sexy Durga (2017)
41
Fashionista (2016)
.. a flawless dive into the subjectivity of loss, trauma and physical sensation.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
42
This desperation that grips the couple... is palpable to the audience.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
43
Clocking in at just 70 minutes, when The Forest of Lost Souls gets it right, it excels...
Posted Dec 15, 2017
44
The Grown-Ups (2016)
The Grown-Ups is a delight, made with affection and nuance by a filmmaker who doesn't patronise her characters.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
45
The War Show (2016)
... The War Show will linger as a bloodied testament to the loss and sacrifice faced by those forced into diaspora.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
46
Angry Inuk (2016)
[Director Alethea] Arnaquq-Baril has an undoubtedly difficult challenge on her hands: convincing viewers that slaughtering seals is, in fact, a good thing.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
47
It's Not Yet Dark (2017)
Unfortunately, it becomes very clear very quickly that the strangely condescending nature of Fenton's opening image isn't an ironic set-up for later deconstruction.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
48
What makes this secret history even more powerful is the incredible sadness about it all.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
49
... further evidence that Iran is one of the leading national cinemas when it comes to understanding the subtle mechanics of experimenting with film genre.
Posted Dec 15, 2017
50
It Comes At Night (2017)