The Wild Pear Tree
David Lynch was right: words have failed me. As I left the Cannes premiere of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The WildContinue Reading
Category: Reviews
Cold War ★★★
“Who knew true love could be so chilly?” should read the tagline for Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski’s 85-minute romantic epicContinue Reading
BlacKkKlansman ★★★½
There’s a chilling moment towards the middle of BlacKkKlansman where Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) laughs at the notion thatContinue Reading
Burning ★★★★
Nothing about Burning is certain except that it haunts the mind long after the credits conclude. Though Lee Chang-dong’s latestContinue Reading
Revenge ★½
How does one start a review for a film like Revenge? The genre – the rape and revenge horror filmContinue Reading
Tully ★★
Possibly the biggest surprise of 2018 thus far has to be Jason Reitman‘s Tully and not because of the film’s quality.Continue Reading
24 Frames ★★★★
At the base of a large hill, there is a clearing. Snow falls covering both hill and clearing in white.Continue Reading
Fishbowl California ★★½
Rodney (Steve Olson) is a mess. We can see this in the first frames of Fishbowl California: dirty counters, clothesContinue Reading
Paterno ★★½
Barry Levinson seems to have found a home at HBO, the television network premiering his previous film The Wizard ofContinue Reading
Chappaquiddick ★★½
In a film about the Chappaquiddick incident – in which a car driven by Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) wentContinue Reading
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