Utama
A simple story of aging and reconciliation between an elderly Quechua-speaking married couple and their grandson where they reside in their Altiplano Basin community that is within the Andes in [...]
2012 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2012
2012 was one of those years where studios didn't put out too many greatly impressive films. The Dark Knight Rises didn't live up to expectations, and so many of the awards [...]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
When writer/director Rian Johnson’s witty Knives Out was released over Thanksgiving 2019, it was seen as a massive breath of fresh air. An original whodunnit with an all-star cast and [...]
The Inspection
The autobiographical, or at least semi-autobiographical, film has been a hot topic in the last few years. From Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir films and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, to this year’s [...]
Bones and All
An impulsive misfit finds true love with a mysterious drifter in the bizarrely romantic horror-road movie Bones and All. The film echoes Claire Denis' cannibal love story Trouble Every Day [...]
The Fabelmans
An emotionally complex, sentimental journey through the joyful and equally tormented memories of iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg's artistic origins and formative years, Spielberg's latest film, The Fabelmans, is his own [...]
The Menu
Director Mark Mylod has spend over two decades directing some of the biggest, most acclaimed and respected pieces of television. recently, HBO’s Succession and Game of Thrones, but also Entourage and [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Walt Disney. A Burl Ives TV musical. Italian animator Giuliano Cenci. Steve Barron, with 90’s heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas. A Kevin S. Tenney slasher film. Steven Spielberg, somewhat. Roberto Benigni. [...]
EO
While Jerzy Skoimowski's EO is being billed and labeled as "a modern-day retelling of Robert Bresson's Au Hazard Balthazar," the film stands on its own as a modern update that [...]
She Said
It's a rarity when an international filmmaker is able to make a transfer from their homeland to an American studio film and still succeed, After high acclaim with last year's [...]