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Will You Still Be My Friend ★★★
Economic and ecological priorities are at the core of Lu Po-Shun‘s classic but also a tad conventional coming-of-age tale ofContinue Reading
Lovers Sleep Alone ★★★
Physical presence is only a painful provisory in Massih Parsaei‘s tender first-time feature, circling with its lonely protagonist through aContinue Reading
The World Before ★★★
Set over a languid summer on a remote Korean island, Yoon Dan-bi weaves a tender tale of the threshold fromContinue Reading
Heart of the Beast ★★
Is the title of David Ayer‘s sentimental survival epic a reference to animalistic qualities in humans, or to human qualitiesContinue Reading
Flesh Impact (short film) ★★★
On the cover, Marilyn Monroe might be the heroine of Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s semi-biographical short film. But the glistening presence atContinue Reading
Wild Asparagus (short film) ★★½
At a little under half an hour’s runtime, Avi Mograbi‘s documentarist meditation carries the weight of a historic chronicle ofContinue Reading
They’re Here (short film) ★★★★
“The reality is a nightmare,” Laura Poitras said in an interview about her spectral short film, premiering out of competitionContinue Reading
Resident Evil ★★★½
Bryan (Austin Abrams) is an ordinary young man. He is finishing up his latest job, the delivery of an organContinue Reading
The Good Lawyer ★
Despite the lack of intentional humour in Tristan Séguéla‘s overwrought courtroom affair, its title almost seems like an in-joke. “BadContinue Reading
Man in Water ★½
Class differences and careerism are not only narratively at the core of Gael García Bernal‘s diffuse directorial debut, which revealsContinue Reading
