Film Reviews & Insights
Saturday Night
Jason Reitman is a skilled director, and he may have finally found his flair in Saturday Night. That might seem like a surprising statement about the director who has made [...]
The Outrun
The Outrun is a new drama based on the memoir by Amy Liptrot. Here, director Nora Fingscheidt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Liptrot, casts Saoirse Ronan as Rona, in a [...]
Joker: Folie à Deux
2019's Joker was a lighting-in-a-bottle film that came with much buzz and discourse, with overwhelming box office returns to boot. Todd Phillips' distinct vision of the classic DC villain was [...]
Will & Harper
Will & Harper is a documentary about friendship. It is also about belonging, identity, understanding and acceptance. Often, this is as much about the person one might think least needs to [...]
Megalopolis
It was inevitable that both film critics and modern film buffs wouldn't be fully united on Francis Ford Coppola's latest magnum opus, Megalopolis, a highly sophisticated, dense, and visionary film [...]
Lee
Lee, from director Ellen Kuras, stars Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, the photographer and former model, who is regarded as one of the most significant visual journalists of the Second [...]
Strange Darling
After a large array of horror and serial killer thrillers full of style and atmosphere, 2024 continues its horror streak with JT Mollner's gripping, brutally intense, and wildly unpredictable Strange [...]
Close Your Eyes
If there is one filmmaker that works at an even slower pace than Jonathan Glazer and Terrence Malick did, it's Spanish auteur Victor Erice. He has only released four features [...]
The Critic
The Critic, based on the novel Curtain Call is set in the world of 1930s London. Here, we meet Jimmy Erskine who has been the drama critic for The Chronicle, for decades. He [...]
Reagan
A political biopic that is far more interested in being worshipful than it is in exploring political complexities and moral conundrums, Sean McNamara's latest film Reagan has moments that are [...]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton's original 1988 Beetlejuice was something of a pop culture phenomenon in its initial release. Just the second feature film from Burton, Beetlejuice was largely responsible for establishing the [...]