Sunday, November 24, 2024

Mother Land Review

Even before it starts, Park Jae-beom's gorgeous film, Mother Land, has a lot to be proud of. It's the first fully stop-motion animated South Korean film...

Brother Review: A Searing Exploration of a Shattered Bond

The sons of a Caribbean immigrant struggle to find belonging and a future while growing up poor on the outskirts of Toronto. Brother is a searingly...

Aporia Review

If one of your loved ones suddenly passed away in an accident, what would you do? The arts, cinema, and literature have been exploring themes of...

Late Night with the Devil Review

There's something comforting in the fact that, despite living in an era where technology exists to make movies look as clean and slick as possible, one...

The Sacrifice Game Review

Horror is back in a big way. Not that it ever truly went anywhere, but like anything else, peaks and valleys in the Hollywood genre machine...

Passages Review: A Sexy Love Affair Makes Waves in Paris

"When you get back to Paris, I want you to leave me alone." This is just one memorable line from acclaimed American filmmaker Ira Sachs' powerful...

LOLA Review: The Best Found-Footage Film in Many Years

The constant conundrum of time travel films can be summarized succinctly — if someone changes the past in any way, then that action will have ripple...

A Compassionate Spy Review: A Different Take On Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project

Adding spark to this summer’s Oppenheimer buzz is director Steve James’ intriguing new documentary, A Compassionate Spy. The filmmaker, whose previous work includes masterpieces like Hoop...

What Comes Around Review: A Nightmare Scenario for Parents

An impressionable Utah teen meets a much older man online and falls in love, but unleashes dark secrets when she brings him to meet her astonished...

Mob Land Review

A drag strip racer desperate for cash and his reckless brother-in-law pay the price for robbing a small town pill mill. Mob Land aims to be...