1999 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1999
W hat a remarkable year 1999 was. It was in a period long before streaming services, and virtually everyone went to the movies and the box-office wasn't in draught. It [...]
Tuesday
Daina O. Pusić sophomore feature Tuesday attempts to be a fantasy drama about death, and in that regard, it holds some endearing and equally bizarre moments, but mostly it's a [...]
Young Woman and the Sea
Familiar but engaging, Joachim Rønning's biographical sports drama, about the taxing journey of swimmer Trudy Ederle and how she was the first swimmer to swim across the English Channel, certainly [...]
Hit Man
Maverick filmmaker Richard Linklater returns to live-action after his overlooked retro-animated Apollo 10 1/2 with Hit Man, a cleverly scripted romantic action comedy that is highly enjoyable with a charismatic [...]
Babes
One of the most refreshing things you realize about Babes is the humor and wit sprinkled with tropes of a buddy movie and cleverly crude humor on relationships, sex, and [...]
I Saw the TV Glow
Far more surrealist and avant-garde in approach than horror, Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature, I Saw the TV Glow, is, for better or for worse, going to defy the audience's expectations. [...]
The Fall Guy
Advocates of the studio's long-standing appetite for films based on beloved television shows will have a strong case for The Fall Guy. An action-packed comedy that also holds romance is [...]
Evil Does Not Exist
Renowned Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers his most enigmatic film yet with Evil Does Not Exist, a masterful study of corporate greed presented in a rural Japanese village. Immaculately shot [...]
We Grown Now
We Grown Now is the latest independent feature by Minhai Baig, whose previous film Hala was also about youths sorting out their uncertain lives in Chicago. I enjoyed that film, [...]
Challengers
Luca Guadagnino pivots away from horror films back to romantic dramas that brought him such great notoriety in his earlier work, depicting characters experiencing forbidden love and desire in isolated, [...]