Category: Theatrical Review
Not unlike the struggling family at the center of another one of the year’s best films, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, Midnight Family‘s Ochoa clan are not bad people. Perhaps they’re a little desensitized, with 17-year-old Juan casually describing dead bodies while...
Throughout The Disappearance of My Mother, Benedetta Barzini is seen living in a cluttered apartment, brazenly refusing to shower for days on end and constantly taking pulls from an e-cigarette. You almost wouldn’t guess that she was once one of...
Among the many strange and dark delights offered by Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, perhaps the most memorable are the sales clerks. Nearly identical, like the women in Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” video or Cloud Atlas‘s cafe slaves, but more...
The opening sequence of Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts is just a ton of fun. Felicity Jones, in clothes and make-up so garish as to approach clowndom, tears through London in a carriage, arriving not a moment too late for a...
In the small town of Ozark, Missouri there is a church. It’s just one of many. Across the street from this church is a cemetery. In that small cemetery is a grave marked “Kevin David Smith”. Along with his name,...
There is no denying that Sam Mendes’ 1917 is a technical triumph. A war story filmed in a series of long takes (with hidden cuts), the film actively works to put the audience in the shoes of our main characters...
Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes opens with a brief scene of Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) speaking on the phone with a customer service representative, trying to buy a plane ticket. It’s not as laugh out loud funny as President Bartlet...
One of the most stirring things about Melina Matsoukas’ powerful feature directing debut Queen & Slim is how little suspension of disbelief its wild story requires. Not that many years ago, a lot of white viewers might have questioned the...
Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) loves poetry. She reads it, writes it and recites it to her classmates and her whole world changes when she discovers that her crush, a fellow skateboarder named Jesse (Jack Kilmer), shares her passion. But Hala, the...
In the first of a few trips into town the farming family in Pema Tseden’s Balloon makes–exciting events, even if usually necessitated by something unpleasant–we see propagandistic signage encouraging people to plan their families wisely. We will come to realize...
