Tag: Review

Hide and Seek from writer director Ragini Bhasin is a charming little film with a powerful and impactful ending that will instantly connect with anyone…

Italian filmmaker Giulia Achenza’s Fenice (2021) is a gorgeous piece of cinema that succeeds in its mission to illustrate the power of both regeneration of…

Ah, the joys of a sleepover party with your BFF! Waffle is a fun take on the sleepover/slumber party chick-flick film, it’s deliciously dark and…

Booksmart continues the long tradition of films about two kids the summer after high school, growing over the course of one wild night. It feels…

Teenage girls are full of contradictions. Shallow and existential, audacious and anxious, convinced of their own importance and their own invisibility simultaneously, and capable of…

The short film Bird of Paradise (Nos Lions) effectively builds a sense of danger but gets lost in its own sense of mystery. The story…

A.J. Al-Thani’s The Black Veil is an astonishing and empowering short film which the world needs now more than ever. With the on-going political troubles…

Whole is a minute long animation which manages to say what it needs to within a restricted runtime. The beauty and simplicity of Whole is…

What does it look like to grieve? That is what Katherine DuBois explores in her short film, Awake. Through the under-15 minute journey, we see an…

I didn’t know what to expect when I sat down to watch Mad God, the new animated feature from Phil Tibbet. Whose special effects work…

Martyrs Lane is a gripping new horror film that captivates and mystifies consistently. Atmospheric, puzzling, and ultimately tragic, there is a delicacy to its craft…

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness”. These are the words echoed throughout Ryan Braund’s ambitious and visually captivating new feature…

Robuste, or Robust as it’s called in English, with an untranslatable pun, was the opening film of Semaine de la Critique in this year’s Cannes…

When Jaques Rivette made Love On the Ground in 1984 he said that one of the best reasons for making films is being able to…