Dreams
Some films come with a message, and others more an intention. Dreams is a film that seems to believe it has both, yet fails to ignite interest. From Michel Franco, who did [...]
Wuthering Heights
Like the newest Dracula film by Luc Besson, the latest Wuthering Heights seeks to reinvent a timeless classic novel that has spawned countless film and television adaptations, each tackling different aspects of the [...]
The Moment
Pop star Charli XCX was catapulted into the mainstream with the release of her spectacular 2024 album "brat". Having worked in the industry for over a decade, Charli's mainstream success [...]
Dracula
It is beyond the scope of a review to explore and analyze exactly what it is about certain stories that demand to be retold not just every century but often [...]
Crime 101
Bart Layton's 2017 breakthrough film, American Animals, was a unique and ambitious attempt at telling a true-crime story through the fusion of fictional and non-fiction storytelling. The filmmaker began his [...]
Jimpa
Jimpa opens decently well in its first moments, with Olivia Colman as Hannah, an Australian acting teacher and director, preparing to visit her father. She is taking her husband and [...]
Calle Malaga
Some films can get by on visual splendor, and others on character. Some, of course, manage through plot or pure nerve. Calle Malaga is none of these. It is a lovely [...]
A Private Life
Co-writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski revisits the whole American in Paris trope in her recent black comedy mystery thriller A Private Life, about a highly regarded psychiatrist, Lilian Steiner (Jodie [...]
Whistle
Irish filmmaker Corin Hardy broke through with his eerie 2015 folk horror film The Hallow before entering the Hollywood machine, helming the very silly, but atmospheric Conjuring spin-off The Nun. [...]
Sirat
In Sirat, a father searches for his missing adult daughter in the Moroccan desert, along with his young son and their dog. Along the way, they make friends with people [...]