Sundown ★½
An isolated cabin in the wintry Canadian countryside becomes the site of a family kangaroo court, as elderly Donna (OlwenContinue Reading
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Hanabi ★★
A self-absorbed, sensorial film about the long shadow of a catastrophe, Ana Vaz‘s second feature tries to grasp the traumaContinue Reading
Summer Meadow ★★★
“Quite a lot of people get lost,” remarks the young protagonist of Naël Khleifi and Lisa Debauche‘s intimate portrait ofContinue Reading
Bakma ★½
“Bakma” is a Tunisian term for voicelessness or the inability to speak, Abdelhamid Bouchnak explains in a brief introduction, justContinue Reading
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
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
