Tag: Review

Farnoosh Samadi’s feature debut is a chilling, quietly brutal drama that examines the real-life tensions caused by patriarchal society. Set in and around Tehran, Iran’s…

Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane‘s second feature to return to the London Film Festival, The Disciple, opens with a classical vocal chorus inter-cutting between two men…

Many great film titles dilute their characters into basic descriptors: Stalker, The Graduate, Bicycle Thieves, The Passenger. All these examples attempt to define human lives…

In Bassam Tariq‘s first fiction feature film, Mogul Mowgli, his central character comes alive during his rap battles with other like-minded, energised young men. In…

As the son of legendary director David Cronenberg, Brandon Cronenberg had big shoes to fill and after a smaller feature directorial debut, looks to have…

Some motion picture experiences work so well as contemplative, moving stories, that in an instant you forget cravings you may have for the action blockbuster…

Why do humans tell stories? This is a question that has been asked and explored throughout the history of humanity with no one answer perfectly…

The latest round of film festival entries seem to often focus on a reoccurring theme of women struggling with mental illness. Perhaps it is a…

Despite the medium of animation often being casted aside as a lesser form of storytelling meant for children, every year there are a select number…

I am of the opinion that if we’re going to get yet another adaptation from the literary canon, let’s at least do something interesting with…

The story of a young girl in a refugee camp struggling with her period, Ghazaal offers a powerful depiction of the lack of basic dignity…

Film history classes may pound the French New Wave into the heads of cinema students everywhere, but not much is said about the Czech New…

In Kitty Green’s The Assistant, the slow simmer of impending doom permeates the film. Its 87 minute runtime still manages to pack a whole lot of…

The low rumble of an audience is accompanied by the crash of water, where a young woman is painstakingly poised, unreachable. Her young admirer waits…