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Wildwood ★★★½
Wildwood is an awe-inspiring production. The sheer scale and scope of the film is something that leaves one astounded, aContinue Reading
Fatherland ★★★
German author Thomas Mann is best known for his deeply introspective novels and his novella Death in Venice. At theContinue Reading
Blasphemy, Fascism, and Sexual Hysteria in The Devils
Director Ken Russell’s The Devils has a turbulent history. First released in 1971 to negative reviews, it reached the bigContinue Reading
Whalefall ★★½
After directing the impressive No One Will Save You, an alien invasion film with just five lines of spoken dialogue,Continue Reading
You Can See Everything (documentary) ★★★★
Nathan Fielder is skilled at manipulation. In his breakout show Nathan For You, the comedian acted as a business consultantContinue Reading
Florid ★★★
The voices are always there. From the first scene they follow Jamal (Jonathan Jules) around, whispering in his and theContinue Reading
Cute ½
As a story with a pedophile parent as its main character—with whom the audience is apparently supposed to empathize, atContinue Reading
Bajañi (documentary) ★★
It’s odd for a theatrical film to not truly require any moving images. But this is the case with FernandoContinue Reading
Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Rebellion (documentary) ★½
Yet another hybrid of fiction and documentary at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, María Aparicio‘s cinematic city tour throughContinue Reading
La belle année (documentary) ★½
With the self-centered sophistication of a filmic family romance, Angelica Ruffier‘s debut documentary unearths supposedly forgotten feelings in the houseContinue Reading
