Harrison Atkins draws maps to the stars of a distorted Los Angeles in Sour Minnows
Sour Minnows is inventive, bizarre, funny, and utterly nightmarish.…
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Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots on The Chronology of Water and embodied memories
Lidia does describe immediately that this experience that we're about to receive is a gift from her. It feels literary right off the bat and it's chaotic and nonlinear and fractured.…
Adrian Chiarella on the real-world horrors that inspired Leviticus
The film was made because I feel like a lot of the progress we have made in the last couple of decades has really regressed lately…
Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…
Leo Woodall earns his leading man credentials in Daniel Roher’s engrossing Tuner
The highly enjoyable and entertaining Tuner upends a lot of expectations and zigs where many other films would zag, keeping the momentum from sagging.…
Astonishing Grace: James J. Robinson on his stunning debut film First Light
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…
The labyrinth of the everyday in Kane Parsons’ disquieting Backrooms
Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
Agnieszka Holland on her search for Franz Kafka
Franz: Becoming Kafka drops breadcrumbs for the audience to follow to go on their own search for an author who shapeshifts in our understanding; and in adopting that openness and style, Holland has made a stunning literary biographical work.…
Visconti’s lonely dreamers in Le Notti Bianche featured at Cinema Reborn
Le Notti Bianche is a stunningly beautiful story of yearning and loving beyond what outsiders would deem reasonable.…
Mother Mary is an immersive and fascinating art haunting
Mother Mary is depending on metaphors to express how an essential creative act and bond can never be fully explained, nor can it be completely abandoned.…
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a comfy sequel
If you’re happy to just exist in the world of the characters then The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to fit perfectly. If you’d like something “groundbreaking” the film isn’t it. Ironically, it’s more comfy sweats than haute couture.…
Salt Along the Tongue is a heady and mysterious Australian Euro folk horror
Parish Malfitano’s horror/melodrama Salt Along the Tongue is made in Australia but its bones are European. Specifically, the bones are primarily Italian, but Malfitano extends the film to the many nat…