Destroy All Girls ★★★★
Some films breathe so intensely the air of one specific film festival that they—in any sense of the word—feel madeContinue Reading
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One Night Only ★½
Director Will Gluck’s One Night Only carries with it an unusual premise: three years ago, pre-marital sex was outlawed. ForContinue Reading
Tony ★★★
Matt Johnson’s Tony is both coming-of-age and origin story, depicting the transformative summer where Tony (Dominic Sessa), as he hadContinue Reading
Her Private Hell ★★
Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell plays like a half-remembered dream with details slipping away as the dreamer triesContinue Reading
Motor City ★★ ½
Motor City is a nasty and gritty throwback thriller from director Potsy Ponciroli. Playing like an exploitation or B-movie fromContinue Reading
Learning to Breathe Under Water ★★
Middle-class boys who haven’t learned yet that their needs always come first are never too young for their very ownContinue Reading
The Odyssey ★★★★
Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey is an achievement in grandeur. There have been countless stories inspired by Homer’s epic poem, TheContinue Reading
AnyMart ★★★½
“Maybe it starts in places like that one,” muses a young girl on a date with convenience store clerk SakaiContinue Reading
Paris Paris ★½
With its playful repetition and romantic associations, the title of Isabelle Tollenaere‘s aimless feature film debut creates a curious contrastContinue Reading
The Holy Boy ★★ ½
If a place is called “The Valley of Smiles”—as the setting of Paolo Strippoli‘s quasi-religious horror tale is named byContinue Reading
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