Film Reviews & Insights
Silent Friend
Silent Friend is an unusual work, told in three segments, about the ways in which memory and recognition work, both between people and in a thematic or metaphorical sense. Here, [...]
Backrooms
In the words of Clémence Poséy’s mysterious Barbara in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, “don’t try to understand it, feel it”; the only sentiment I can think of to anyone not familiar [...]
Time and Water
Time and Water is a documentary, on the surface, about a glacier and its demise. Like all enormous ice formations, what you see on top is only a tiny fraction [...]
The Python Hunt
The Everglades region of Florida has seen a rise in invasive species over the last four decades, but none with the power to capture the public imagine quite like the [...]
The Sheep Detectives
Once in awhile, a film comes around that so greatly exceeds the furthest reaches of expectation that it becomes a must-see event just to believe the hype with your own [...]
Pressure
There have been many films about war and many about the Second World War. A seeming majority of those have centered on either combat or rescue missions. Pressure is in [...]
Passenger
“Sometimes when you get haunted, it’s like stepping on gum. You… take it with you.” So said famous (and infamous) demonologist and ghost hunter Ed Warren, of The Conjuring fame, in the [...]
Tuner
Tuner is a relatively simple story, and it is a film that offers no true innovations, in plot or character, but is rather about the how well it is told, rather [...]
I Love Boosters
Boots Riley's sophomore feature follows the same formula as his debut, Sorry to Bother You—a film that holds immense visual invention, but one where the invention is ultimately overcooked. The [...]
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The fourth anthology film in the Star Wars saga from co-writer/director Jon Favreau and co-writer Dave Filoni, The Mandalorian and Grogu certainly carries on the spirit of the hit Disney+ [...]
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Olivier Assayas is a director who has done many different sorts of films, but ultimately they are always centered on intense characters caught in remarkable situations. Sometimes, the works are [...]