Written by Alexander Reams Behind the camera, Tafdrup assembled an amazing crew. Erik Molberg Hansen crafts a beautiful and unnerving landscape, much like… Continue reading.
Sundance 2022: Speak No Evil (Gæsterne)
Category: Film Festival
Sundance 2022: After Yang
Written by Michael Clawson ...Jake replies. Soothing. Not a bad word to describe the effect Kogonada strives for with a movie that, despite some of its finicky visual detail and rigidity, has the relaxing appeal of a placid body of … Continue reading.
Sundance 2022: God’s Country
...seem as if it’s still in rough-cut rather than finalized. “God’s Country” seems out of time and though it hinges on our main characters' past, it is entirely irreflective… Continue reading.
Sundance 2022: A Love Song
...they agree to meet up at campsite number 7 along the side of a lake. Which is where we find Faye as the film begins. Reading her night and day books, spinning the dial of an old battery-operated radio, and … Continue reading.
Sundance 2022 Capsule Review: Long Line of Ladies
Written by Patrick Hao 65/100 There is something to be said whenever a short film leaves you wishing it was a longer feature. Long Line of Ladies does exactly that. Co-directed by Shaadiine Tome and Rayka Zehtabchi, this 22-minute documentary … Continue reading.
Sundance 2022 | Curtain Raiser w/ Taylor Baker and Thomas Stoneham-Judge of ForReel
Thomas and I look over this year’s selections and challenge ourselves to choose their most anticipated movie in each of Sundance's categories. Which is more difficult than it sounds if you’ve seen the lineup… Continue reading.
Sundance 2022 Capsule Review: Warsha
Dania Bdeir’s Warsha is able to say a lot in its limited run time, although context is needed to make a full meal out of this short film. The film follows a Syrian migrant in Lebanon tasked with operating a … Continue reading.
Clara Sola
Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s feature debut, Clara Sola, could very well be called The 40-Year-Old Virgin, though other than both films revolving around a 40(ish)-year-old virgin (this one played by Wendy Chinchilla Araya), the two share … Continue reading.
TIFF 2021 Review: Dashcam
Written by Taylor Baker 85/100 Dashcam begins inordinately and unceremoniously with Annie starting her #1 Stream. It seems like a fairly ordinary and reductive punching down interpretation of contemporary politics in the West. We get moments of her yapping at … Continue reading.
HCAF 2021 Review: Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me
Written by Raúl Mendoza 97/100 Throughout my long debate with myself on what exactly I want my first review for the site to be, I kept asking myself what speaks more to me as a person but the various identities … Continue reading.