“[T]his pool is far from a hyper-chlorinated oasis; rather, it is a fetid, acid-laced, and psychosexual stew, one that pulls characters and viewers alike down into the murky depths of amorality and churns them into husks of the humans they once were.”
Read More“Unless you’re particularly embittered, this film’s commitment to mining pathos from groan-worthy small talk is what will probably make you “come around” to it in the end […]”
Read More“The Flying Sailor renders the famed explosion as implosion in the mind of this sailor, as a lifetime compressed into a kaleidoscopic “flash” before one’s eyes.”
Read MoreThe year 2022 saw many filmmakers submitting oversized, overly-ambitious, and often risk-laden projects that have us still reeling in the fallout. So, what’s one more list? Let’s get into it.
Read More“[I]t is not melody or unexplainable emotion that Tár is pursuing, but the damning truths about her own self.”
Read More“Watching Funny Pages is like overturning a rock and watching the bugs it concealed begin to writhe and squirm.”
Read More“Zombie has always dealt in nightmare matter, but in Halloween II the nightmare feels more personally upsetting, more visceral, more of-the-moment and more zeitgeist-informed than anything else he has produced.”
Read More“The Locust sees metafictional layer upon metafictional layer folded over a single, confined setting, where family members and crewmembers alike converge to battle for creative control over a filmmaker's personal passion project (and maybe life...?).”
Read More“Francesco Sossai’s Other Cannibals is a work of horror-realism so mired in its characters’ misguided meandering that it becomes something else entirely, a stark black almost-comedy of errors about two outcasts trying desperately to sink their teeth into life itself.”
Read More“The big goofy grin you’ll be wearing on your face throughout the runtime, that is pure Spielberg. Scene after scene of this film hits every big emotional beat that you want from a heart-on-its-sleeve, Hollywood production.”
Read MoreIn light of the ForReel team having recently been in Toronto, and in light of Egoyan’s Toronto-set sixth feature being released by the Criterion Collection, I re-investigate the film’s particular brand of erotica.
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