The Bride! ★★★
The Bride! is a reclamation. Opening with text hyping up the creation of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley asContinue Reading
The Bride! is a reclamation. Opening with text hyping up the creation of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley asContinue Reading
Immobility, introversion, and isolation make for a timely, if occasionally exhausting, focus for Xu Zao‘s dreamlike debut feature Light Pillar.Continue Reading
To anyone who made it through the roughly one and a half hours of Angela Schanelec‘s contrived conversation piece, itContinue Reading
The Dardenne brothers have dedicated their filmography to telling stories about marginalized individuals within European society. Their latest, Young Mothers,Continue Reading
The Secret Agent is a time machine transporting viewers to 1977 Brazil. The sights, sounds, and feeling, all come toContinue Reading
Teenage boys are horrifying. That much is clear from The Plague and its opening scene. A swimming pool is filmedContinue Reading
There is a strange stage-like quality to Kai Stänicke‘s first feature Trial of Hein, premiering in the 76th Berlinale’s PerspectivesContinue Reading
Life continues in spite of death in Abdallah Al-Khatib‘s visceral feature debut that turns to moments of absurdist humor andContinue Reading
Dream, drama, and documentary intertwine in Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale‘s ambitious, though often arcane coming-of-age tale, premiering atContinue Reading
Making its own little bit of cinematic history as the first fully Pakistani production to be selected for Berlinale’s PanoramaContinue Reading










