Film Review: ‘Gangster Squad’
★★☆☆☆ Taking a break from zombies and delivery boys, director Ruben Fleischer fashions a stylised and star-studded, yet vacuous entry into the cops vs....
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★☆☆☆ Taking a break from zombies and delivery boys, director Ruben Fleischer fashions a stylised and star-studded, yet vacuous entry into the cops vs....
★★★★☆ Jen and Sylvia Soska (aka the twin Canadian Soska sisters) made their first collaborative feature, the brilliantly titled Dead Hooker in a Trunk,...
★★★☆☆ “It’s not our job to change them,” remarks Czech engineer Milan Smrž when discussing the inhabitants of a small Zambian township in Martin...
★★★☆☆ Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and featuring a striking lead turn from newcomer Jack Reynor, Irish morality tale What Richard Did (2012) may never...
Live-streamed to the world earlier this morning at bafta.org, the official nominations for the 2013 Baftas were revealed by rising British stars Alice Eve...