Tag: Review
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)
Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is a writer struggling from the failure of her biography of Estee Lauder, years removed from the success she had in…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Fire of Love (Sara Dosa)
There are love stories that seem impossible to believe until you watch the living proof of it. It isn’t just photos, but a full archive…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears)
The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last 5 years or so. And even those of us not fully…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: The Piano (Jane Campion)
The first film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes (it shared the victory with Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine), New…
Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
I know we have become a much more refined bunch of film critic snobs over the years. But I take objection to some of the…
TIFF 23 Dispatch: ‘Knox Goes Away’; ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’; ‘Poolman’
Nearly every TIFF features one or two films directed by prominent actors, and to call them a mixed bag is almost deceitfully charitable. When something…
TIFF 2023 Dispatch: ‘American Fiction’; ‘Les Indesirables’; ‘Stamped From the Beginning; ‘Silver Dollar Road’
In the first few days of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, I saw films depicting the struggle of Black communities and families in many…
Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Standing outside the Sydney theatre on a red carpet, Tom Cruise was certainly in his element – smiling brightly and waving at an adoring crowd…
Retrospective Review: Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) – Director’s Cut
There are only a handful of moments during Ari Aster‘s unnerving, horrorsome new flick, Midsommar, were you find yourself chuckling. If only for a second….
Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse burst onto theatrical screens with aplomb in 2018, it was already known a sequel was potentially in development. Such was…
Cannes Film Review: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
From iconic master of cinema and beloved auteur Martin Scorsese, comes his latest film— Killers of the Flower Moon, which had its highly anticipated world…
Cannes Film Review: May December (2023)
A May December relationship is a term that describes a couple in a romantic relationship with a considerable age gap between them. The ‘May’ refers…
Cannes Film Review: The Zone of Interest (2023)
There’s a unique genre of film that attempts the brave undertaking of doing justice in depicting horrific real-world events throughout human history. From World Wars…
Cannes Film Review: Firebrand (2023)
Many a book, television series and film has been made about the tumultuous and intriguing life of English King Henry VIII, and the number of…
