Film Reviews & Insights
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 [...]
Send Help
Michigan-made horror maestro Sam Raimi makes his long-awaited return to the genre that made him a household name after a 15 year wait. In the years since his unbelievably fun [...]
The Testament of Ann Lee
A passionate, stylistic, opera-like musical of deep vision and scope, this engaging movie is one of the most idiosyncratic films of the year from the acclaimed duo of co-writer Brady [...]
H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name. Claire Foy plays Helen MacDonald, an academic in England who is about to lose her residency [...]
Return to Silent Hill
In 2006, filmmaker Christophe Gans made the film adaptation of the popular Konami survival horror game franchise Silent Hill. The film was a decent hit, raking in over $100 million [...]
KPop Demon Hunters
Korean Pop is not something this reviewer is overly familiar with. Going in to a film like K-Pop Demon Hunters, one might think that at least a surface familiarity would be [...]