“…it’s the performances from Close’s young actors Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele that endows Close with the real heartrending power that the film possesses.”
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“The Girl and the Spider is a film that feels maddeningly opaque, even though it offers an intimate view behind the walls at daily life.”
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“Reinsve, in a Cannes Best Actress-winning performance, embodies all the tumult of her character’s wild and wavering inhibitions, her angst filtered into pointed attacks as often as it is re-directed inwards.”
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“…the question of whether Cummings can compatibly incorporate comedy in a thriller comes down to questioning whether he is the right actor to lead his thriller-oriented films.”
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“The character development that ensues in Émilie, Camille, Nora, and Amber is a marvel to behold…”
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“…demand for experiencing Memoria is sure to be feverish - and I’m obliged to add fuel to that fire.”
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“I sat down with the writer and director of Father Pablo (Padre Pablo) José Luis Isoard Arrubarrena and lead actor Rafael Martínez Sánchez from Mexico City, Mexico to discuss the film.”
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A capsule review for Undine.
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“Possessor is a wild and particular brand of sci-fi entertainment.”
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“…Time forgoes the legwork to support Sibil’s grievances, and I spent the duration of the documentary troubled by that.”
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“Their choice to keep neutrality on this by delicately building out characters and sequences of dialogue where he is unsympathetic or just a plain asshole reap a reward of treating the audience as mature and not spoon-feeding us.”
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“The Magnitude of All Things features incredible and gorgeous cinematography. Bright, vivid, smooth, often slow motion shots capture some of the best scenery the world has to offer.”
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“The Race To Alaska is marvelous at not only documenting how racers work around the complications of participating in this race, but also exploring why they do it.”
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“…Paunovic, particularly, is especially convincing in keeping audiences guessing whether he’s a friend of foe.”
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“…an overdose of emotional terror…”
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“But because of the hyperfocus on Jeanne’s side of the story, Jumbo lacks the layers to add comprehensive context to the story.”
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“…the psychological manipulation and distress remains egregious as men are taught how their lifestyles are in need of “redirection”, especially when a critical plot point is revealed midway though the film.”
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“Monkey Beach excels at revealing key information at the right points in the narrative to keep the story surprising and fresh.”
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