The Wild Goose Lake
Like Hong Kong filmmakers Johhny To and John Woo, Chinese filmmaker Diao Yi'nan is one of Asian cinemas strongest talents of crime thrillers, infusing most of his films with ravishing [...]
Corpus Christi
Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa's "Corpus Christi" is an engaging film about an enigmatic convict named Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia), haunted by internal conflict and past trauma and the shadow of his [...]
Bacurau
If the term genre-blurring didn't exist, it would have to be destined to define Kleber Mendonca Filho's and Juliano Dornelles's Brazilian film "Bacurau," a delirious but distinctive post-modern Western political [...]
Swallow
Actress Haley Bennett gets a perfect opportunity to showcase her acting talents in Carlo Mirabella-Davis's feature directorial debut, "Swallow". Bennett plays a layered dramatic role that should elevate her into [...]
Emma.
The Jane Austen tender and sardonic spirit converges expertly in photographer and music-video director Autumn de Wilde's feature film debut of "Emma", an opulent period drama that applies the classic [...]
Young Ahmed
They are the modern masters of cinematic parables and social realism, the Belgium filmmaking sibling duo known as the Dardenne brothers continue their empathetic and emotionally raw sensibilities with their [...]
Horse Girl
The Sundance film Horse Girl has landed a wide release on Netflix. Directed by Jeff Baena and co-written by him and its star Alison Brie, it's the story of a [...]
Zombi Child
Haiti is the ghost that plagues Bertrand Bonello, and in "Zombi Child" it is far from being a ghost film, and contrary to what the title leads you to believe, [...]
The Photograph (2020)
Valentine's Day has usually been a mixed bag in terms of quality romantic films at the box office. With the highly profitable but much maligned "Fifty Shades" trilogy and 2010's [...]
Sonic the Hedgehog
Based on the Sega video game franchise of the same name, this movie had all the ingredients to be a disaster. Video game movies, as many already know, don’t have [...]