We Are All Strangers ★★
Concluding his “Growing Up” trilogy that began in 2013 with Ilo Ilo and continued with 2019’s Wet Season, Anthony ChenContinue Reading
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Chimney Town: Frozen in Time ★★
After the critical and commercial success of Yusuke Hirota‘s Poupelle of Chimney Town, which took the whimsical characters of AkihiroContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: Awards and Wrap-up
There was a general impression that Wim Wenders, head of the 2026 Berlinale International Jury, had some explaining to do.Continue Reading
Wolfram ★★½
Almost a decade after his highly regarded Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton returns, not only to the genre, but to theContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: At the Sea, Queen at Sea, Nina Roza, The Loneliest Man in Town
There were two movies in the 2026 Berlinale Competition lineup with oddly similar titles. As fate would have it, oneContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: Yellow Letters, In a Whisper, Rose
Let’s catch up with the Competition, shall we? When I wrote about Rosebush Pruning I mentioned that a lot ofContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: A Prayer for the Dying, The Blood Countess, Sleep No More
Within the sprawling festival program, the Berlinale Special section isn’t an easy one to pin down. Over the years it’sContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: Sad Girlz, The Moment
If there’s one major section of the Berlinale that I tend to overlook, year after year, it’s Generations. The sectionContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Nightborn, Rosebush Pruning
If you read my pre-festival preview of the Competition titles for this year’s Berlinale, you know I had some highContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: London, Everything Else is Noise, If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Ghost in the Cell, AnyMart
Over the past few years the same thing kept happening at Berlinale. I’d see an early screening of something stunningContinue Reading
