Bacurau ★★★½
Much of Kleber Mendonca Filho’s newest film Bacurau cleaves very close to its genre roots – specifically the Western. BacurauContinue Reading
Author: Eugene Kang
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha ★★★
Stories from women’s voices are few and far between from Afghanistan and other conservative Muslim countries. Sahraa Karimi is theContinue Reading
Letting Go of the Past in My Sassy Girl
If you were Korean or around Koreans at the turn of the century, My Sassy Girl would have been partContinue Reading
For Sama ★★★
In the genre of war films, rarely do we get a work that truly shows the effects of war uponContinue Reading
Redemption Through Platonic Love in A New Leaf
In A New Leaf, Walter Matthau plays Henry Graham, a playboy with a profligate spending habit that bankrupts him andContinue Reading
I Lost My Body ★★★
I Lost My Body follows a disembodied hand as it seeks to reunite with its owner. At the same time,Continue Reading
Weathering with You ★★★
Makoto Shinkai, director of the smash hit Your Name, returns with another movie that portrays natural phenomena with a supernaturalContinue Reading
Waves ★★★
Waves marks a seemingly dramatic departure for Trey Edward Shults from his previous two features. Both Krisha and It ComesContinue Reading
The Report ★★½
The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program was a government-funded investigation of over 6,700 pagesContinue Reading
Queen of Hearts ★★★
Often, female characters in film are not afforded much moral complexity. Even as modern cinema itself gets more progressive, womenContinue Reading
