Việt and Nam ★★½
Việt and Nam begins in pitch black, in the dark of a coal mine. Việt (Đào Duy Bảo Định) andContinue Reading
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The Life of Chuck ★★★
The Life of Chuck wears its heart on its sleeve. It is a celebration of life and everything that makesContinue Reading
Tornado ★★★
It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since writer/director John Maclean’s debut feature film Slow West.Continue Reading
The Phoenician Scheme ★★★
Realizing that Wes Anderson has been plying his trade for over thirty years came as a minor shock to meContinue Reading
Friendship ★★★½
Friendship plays like a psychotic break. Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson), from the outside looking in, is an ordinary man. HeContinue Reading
Amrum ★★
There’s a treacherous tranquility to the title of Fatih Akin‘s latest foray into biographic topics after the much nastier TheContinue Reading
Caught by the Tides ★★★½
During the COVID-19 pandemic, China had one of the strictest responses to the virus. Through implementing community screening, quarantines, andContinue Reading
The Surfer ★★★
The Surfer is a wild ride. Playing like a sunstroke-induced nightmare of Ozploitation-influenced chaos, it is a disorienting assault onContinue Reading
The Legend of Ochi ★★½
In The Legend of Ochi, director Isaiah Saxon creates a dark fantasy film with genuine wonder and awe. Set onContinue Reading
On Swift Horses ★★★
In their first encounter in On Swift Horses, the natures of Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Julius (Jacob Elordi) are immediatelyContinue Reading
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