Tag: Review
Sundance 2021 Review: The World To Come
An adaptation of a short story by Jim Shepard, The World to Come meanders through Upstate New York in the mid-19th century. Mona Fastvold’s film…
Film Review: Alice Fades Away
It’s possible to under and over-deliver on suspense. In Alice Fades Away, the plight of a threatened woman is constantly undercut by a need to…
Sundance 2021 Review: Summer of Soul
Acclaimed musician turned director, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson presents us with “A Qwestlove Jawn”. After a slew of assassinations including John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther…
Sundance 2021 Review: Cryptozoo
Dash Shaw has spent his career experimenting with various visual mediums and unique forms of storytelling with his newest feature Cryptozoo being no different. Premiering…
Sundance 2021 Review: In the Same Breath
With films like One Child Nation, I Am Another You, and Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang was already on her way to becoming legendary. In the Same Breath opens with a…
Sundance 2021 Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
It is the 50-year anniversary of Lucino Visconti’s film Death in Venice. A film that circled festivals and garnered plenty of praise from critics and…
Sundance 2021 Review: Writing with Fire
As a female journalist, is it easy just to read the statistics and see the small implications of being female in this industry from the…
Film Review: Black Bear (2020)
“Black Bear” is a difficult film to pin down. The film has multiple storylines, all involving the same three characters. Allison (Aubrey Plaza) is an…
Film Review: Ammonite (2020)
After making one of the best films of the last decade – God’s Own Country (2017) – director Francis Lee had a lot to live…
Film Review: Mank (2020)
Citizen Kane has long been considered the shining achievement of Orson Welles. With many considering it to be one of the greatest features ever created….
Film Review: One Night in Miami (2020)
Based on a 2013 play of the same name, Regina King‘s first major feature directorial outing One Night in Miami brings the real-life 1964 meeting…
AFI Fest 2020 Review: The Father (2020)
Adapting his own award-winning play of the same name, Florian Zeller crafts a stunning feature directorial debut with The Father. Capturing the horrors of old…
LFF Review: If It Were Love (Patric Chiha)
If It Were Love is filmed theater, and by filmed theater that does not mean the stage, but the process, the transitions, and the trying…
LFF Review: Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
Unlike his previous Golden Bear recipient Fire at Sea, supposed Italian master Gianfranco Rosi’s follow-up Notturno feels like a shallow adventure through a war-torn world….
