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
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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
Animol ★★★
The title of Ashley Walters‘ harrowing first feature, premiering earlier this year at Berlinale‘s Perspective section and recently screening atContinue Reading
Hold Onto Me ★★
For her feature film debut, screening in Karlovy Vary‘s Horizons section after premiering at Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition inContinue Reading
Ben‘Imana ★★★★
In her language, the word for yesterday is the same as for tomorrow, reminisces Rwandan reconciliation initiative worker Vénéranda (aContinue Reading
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