Herself ★★★
Director Phyllida Lloyd‘s previous two films are well-ingrained in British culture but for very different reasons. Her directorial debut wasContinue Reading
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Relic ★★★
For women in horror films, trauma is fated. It is their bodies at the mercy of narrative evil; their painContinue Reading
Possessor ★★½
Brandon Cronenberg‘s Possessor shares much in common with the horror films of his father, iconic body horror legend David Cronenberg,Continue Reading
Siberia ★★½
Following 2019’s Tommaso, master of grit, rebel auteur Abel Ferrara returns with Willem Dafoe for a lofty nightmarish charge atContinue Reading
Da 5 Bloods ★★★½
Spike Lee has always been an ambitious filmmaker with a strong desire to delve into social issues that demand complexContinue Reading
LX 2048 ★★
LX 2048, the newest film from writer/director Guy Moshe (Bunraku), has unexpected resonance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the film’sContinue Reading
First Cow ★★★½
Underlying many of Kelly Reichardt’s films is the desire to create human dramas that comment obliquely on the environment whereContinue Reading
The Devil All The Time ★★
Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time weaves together a web of disparate lives within and around Knockemstiff, Ohio, castingContinue Reading
I’m Thinking of Ending Things ★★★
The work of Charlie Kaufman is one of irreconcilable contradictions – the desire to forget the pain of a break-upContinue Reading
You Cannot Kill David Arquette ★★★
In 2008, Misha DeFonseca publicly admitted that her memoir about being raised by wolves after her parents were killed byContinue Reading
