Parasite ★★★★
Much of the delight in watching a Bong Joon-ho film is caught up in experiencing the careful tightrope all ofContinue Reading
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(23) The Lighthouse
It doesn’t take much more than the opening scene of The Lighthouse to realize you’re watching the work of aContinue Reading
Sorry We Missed You ★★★½
While I watched the exhaustingly devastating Sorry We Missed You, I couldn’t help but ponder the brief but shrewd remarksContinue Reading
Nina Wu ★★½
At its core, the #MeToo movement has at least somewhat succeeded in exposing the degree to which corruption, misogyny, andContinue Reading
Matthias & Maxime ★★★
We never see the pivotal kiss that informs every consecutive second of Matthias & Maxime. Xavier Dolan‘s latest, a distantContinue Reading
Wounds Ø
If ever there was a digital-age successor to the totally dumb delight of Tommy Wiseau‘s 2003 cult classic The Room,Continue Reading
The Dead Don’t Die ★★
Very few film genres have become as thoroughly rotten to the core over the years as the zombie movie. It’sContinue Reading
The Sisters Brothers ★★★½
“Brothers by blood. Sisters by name” is the tagline for French director Jacques Audiard‘s first outing at the helm of anContinue Reading
Suspiria ★★½
Between the feverish anticipation for Bradley Cooper‘s A Star is Born and Luca Guadagnino‘s Suspiria, the 75th Venice Film Festival has been theContinue Reading
First Man ★½
Helming the darling of the 2016 awards season, La La Land director Damien Chazelle returns to the 2018 Venice Film Festival withContinue Reading
