Film Reviews & Insights
Petite Maman
Petite Maman, the stunning fifth film by French auteur Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tomboy, Girlhood) finds her exploring childhood innocence once again as she combines fantasy [...]
The Bad Guys
Animated films have taken a leap of faith in the last decade, from animation ranging heavily from hand-drawn scene packs to full-fledged 3D animation taking the stage in recent years. [...]
Memory
Academy-Award nominee and major action star as of 2009, Liam Neeson has seen his stature as a major action hero wain a bit over the last half a decade. With [...]
Hatching
Hatching is a stylish Finnish body horror film that echoes elements of creature feature films of the 80s merged with a Japanese horror sensation that eventually finds a personality of [...]
All the Old Knives
It’s not often you see somewhat seasoned documentarians transition to feature filmmaking, especially films with an underlying espionage narrative but Janus Metz Pedersen (Love on Delivery, Armadillo, Ticket to Paradise) [...]
The Northman
At just his third feature film under his belt after the richly atmospheric, The Witch, and the darkly absurdist, The Lighthouse, filmmaker Robert Eggers takes his deconstructionist approach to the [...]
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Tom Gormican's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent might be self-aware, but the film certainly delivers some very hard belly laughs. A two-hander buddy movie is powered by the chemistry [...]
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Recent years have not been kind to the Wizarding World brand. From creator JK Rowling sabotaging her legacy, outing herself as a transphobic bigot. There’s the ongoing legal troubles for [...]
Cow
Some were surprised last year when Andrea Arnold's latest feature ended up being a documentary that followed a cow around; it was certainly a departure from her bleak but visually [...]
Paris, 13th District
An elegantly made, playful, intimate, and ultimately sincere take on love in the modern era that consists of dating apps, social media, hook-ups, friends with benefits, and other newfound desires, [...]
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Ever since video games took the world by storm with their beyond imaginative worlds and beautifully written narratives, Hollywood has been yearning to turn a profit by creating film adaptations [...]