Sisu: Road to Revenge ★★½
In the inevitable follow-up to his 2022 survival saga Sisu, Jalmari Helander expands the folkloric brutality of the original intoContinue Reading
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Hamnet ★★★½
Part of the artistic achievement of Chloé Zhao‘s absorbing account of genius and the personal grammar of grief is notContinue Reading
Magellan ★★★★
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan’s legacy lived in the shadows of that of more prominent and popular explorers such as ChristopherContinue Reading
It Was Just an Accident ★★★
In a scene in Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, two characters compare their situation to the play WaitingContinue Reading
Eternity ★★★
Larry (Barry Primus) and Joan (Betty Buckley) are on their way to a gender reveal party for one of theirContinue Reading
The Sea ★★★
For a film among those which prominently provoked Israel’s culture minister Miki Zohar to threaten that he would cut offContinue Reading
Die My Love ★★★
Die My Love is challenging. Director Lynne Ramsay fine tunes every element of this production to be as agitating asContinue Reading
Frankenstein ★★★½
Like Pinocchio before it, Frankenstein sees Guillermo del Toro adapting a classic 19th century story, this time tapping into delContinue Reading
Nuremberg ★★
There have been many films and miniseries about the trials at Nuremberg, most notably the excellent 1961 film Judgment atContinue Reading
Bugonia ★★
Two people kidnap an affluent individual, convinced they are an alien who is destroying the world.
