Love Lies Bleeding
Director Rose Glass’ feature directorial debut Saint Maud became a casualty of the pandemic, seeing its release delayed and delayed, ultimately dumped in early 2021 with little fanfare. The religious [...]
One Life
“You have a lot of faith in ordinary people.” “I do, because I’m an ordinary person.” This exchange, between Nicholas Winton (Johnny Flynn) and Doreen Warriner (Romola Garai) as they [...]
Club Zero
Club Zero, the latest film from director Jessica Hausner, is a dark comedy thriller satire, except it has no laughs, is utterly boring and does not make you care about [...]
Imaginary
The term "safe" is often used in film criticism to describe a product with tried-and-true elements that appeal to a general audience. It is neither excellent nor terrible, but somewhere [...]
Spaceman
Since Adam Sandler's role in the hit Safdie brothers thriller Uncut Gems, which helped redefine a new chapter in his career, the Sandman has been experimenting more with the kinds [...]
Amelia’s Children
If you are a horror fan, you are probably conscious of the contrasts between American and foreign genre films. Mainstream Hollywood productions frequently offer a commercial look and feel, while [...]
Dune: Part Two
After impressing audiences and critics with the deserts of Arrakis in 2021 with Dune: Part One, the grandiose space opera continues on in Dune: Part Two. The middle section of [...]
Drive-Away Dolls
With Drive-Away Dolls, his second solo feature without brother Joel, iconic filmmaker Ethan Coen proves that, along with his lifetime editor and wife Tricia Cooke, they too can produce a [...]
Driving Madeleine
With Driving Madeleine, director and co-writer Christian Caron, has wrought a minor miracle, in terms of striking a balance between comedy and drama, and between philosophy and action, all of [...]
Stopmotion
Horror films focused on artists dealing with madness are certainly nothing new. From the great Vincent Price in House of Wax, to Jack Nicholson in The Shining, to Yahya Abdul-Mateen [...]