Film Reviews & Insights
Moonfall
After sitting down to watch Roland Emmerich’s newest disaster sci-fi, Moonfall, I realized that there are two ways of being mind-blown. For example, watching David Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Dr. will [...]
Death on the Nile
Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express did a capable enough job at bringing the iconic story to life for a modern [...]
Kimi
Returning to a more stripped-down style that he departed from recently with No Sudden Move and Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderberg retains his visual skills but dispenses with some [...]
Jockey
Just as the title suggests, Jockey is the title of a horse jockey in Clint Bentley's impressive debut feature that made its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A [...]
Sundown
A very austere and deeply mysterious character study drama whose subtext is to expose the world's haves and have-nots, Sundown is Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco's most gripping and visually pleasing [...]
Jackass Forever
It’s been nearly 12 years since the Jackass crew came together to bless us with a cinematic offering of blissful debauchery. In that time, the gents have all hit 40 [...]
The Worst Person in the World
There's a reason for the film's title, but to think the main character is some one-dimensional woman who hurts, betrays, and eventually finds redemption in the full circle of things [...]
Italian Studies
The idea of being deprived of your identity and self-worth in the blink of an eye, traversing through the big city of Manhattan is bound to create some adventures. Italian [...]
The Tender Bar
Releasing along the tail of December, George Clooney directs a film adapted from a memoir written by J.R. Moehringer back in 2005, The Tender Bar: A Memoir. It came as [...]
Belle
The eagerly awaited follow-up to the highly acclaimed Japanese animated feature Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda's latest Belle is a cleverly conceived updated adaptation of the classic Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont novel [...]
A Hero
In his first film since his 2016 Oscar winning The Salesman, Iranian filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, once again merges social commentary with realism as he explores the lives of ordinary characters living day-to-day in [...]