“Stevens has taken this premise and really run with it, turning the female revenge flick into a psycho-supernatural-mythological phantasmagoria.”
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“The desire and the yearning to be more, to do more, and to be seen and accepted by more people, is a condition that affects all us social beings, and Karaoke reminds us that just because we get older, this desire doesn’t leave us.”
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“Machoian and cinematographer Oscar Ignacio Jimnénez work like they have before, relaying their tale via long/medium-wide shots and long takes, their refusal to cut allowing Joe’s follies to go from comical, to tragic, and back again in real time.”
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“Hot off the success of his film Joyland, which premiered at Festival De Cannes and won the Un Certain Regard award, Oliver Ridge joins me in a conversation about Corner Office"…”
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“Official Competition, “Jerry & Marge Go Large”, and “Corner Office” are among the films Taylor Baker and I discuss as we look at what’ screening at this year’s Tribeca Festival.
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“Reece yanks at the strings behind Agnes with devilish glee, and builds upon the chops he earned in his previous two horrors to make Agnes his most spellbinding and formally refined picture yet.”
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“…to call the story that unfolds “fascinating” is an understatement.”
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“Blind Ambition is a feel-good and affirming documentary that speaks volumes to the conviction we invent as we reconcile traditions ingrained with those discovered, Old World with New World.”
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“…[Wyatt] Rockefeller’s first foray into feature length narrative filmmaking delivers on many respectable fronts.”
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“…the film’s tightly framed shots convey with lurid detail the strain Alex enacts on her body during row sessions; the film’s set pieces abstracting place and time into pure sweat and adrenaline.”
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“Through Samay’s story—his toying with coloured lenses and his fashioning of a sewing machine-powered shutter for his projector—our interest and appreciation for projection and the filmmaking process is renewed.”
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“The presentation works well in conjunction with the story to make the unsettling nature of the film creep in slowly and arrest your attention.”
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“[Essie Davis and Thomasin McKenzie] are highlights in a story that is built for - and succeeds at - leaving a strong impression on audiences.”
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“[W]hat See For Me accomplishes is extremely calculated; the film is always laser-focused on finding where the next thrill can come from and how it can be reshaped before it is delivered.”
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