Film Review: ‘Man of Steel’
★★☆☆☆ Expectations were high that the Zack Snyder-directed, Christopher Nolan-produced Man of Steel (2013) would finally erase the memory of Bryan Singer’s poor and...
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.
★★☆☆☆ Expectations were high that the Zack Snyder-directed, Christopher Nolan-produced Man of Steel (2013) would finally erase the memory of Bryan Singer’s poor and...
★★★☆☆ Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is the only African recipient, other than Nelson Mandela, of the prestigious Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize. For over...
★★☆☆☆ Starring Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Lilly Collins and Logan Lerman, Stuck in Love (2012) is a romantic comedy about a dysfunctional family of...
★★★☆☆ The inaugural part of Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy (with all three films receiving staggered releases in the coming months), Paradise: Love...