Film Review: ‘Pride’
★★★★☆ Following the minor disappointment of Ken Loach’s somewhat lethargic Jimmy’s Hall (2014), left-leaning political activism returns to UK cinemas, but this time in...
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.
★★★★☆ Following the minor disappointment of Ken Loach’s somewhat lethargic Jimmy’s Hall (2014), left-leaning political activism returns to UK cinemas, but this time in...
★★★☆☆ Dutch visual artist Anton Corbijn compiles an all-star cast for his much-anticipated film adaptation of John le Carré’s bestselling novel A Most Wanted...
★★★★☆ The Norwegian protagonist of Hans Petter Moland’s In Order of Disappearance (2014), Nils Dickman (Stellan Skarsgård), is a plough operator by profession, steadily...
★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter’s You’ve Been Trumped was one of the unexpected gems of 2011; a blood-boiling j’accuse at American fat cat Donald Trump and,...
★★★★☆ There’s more than a touch of the macabre to Laika Studios’ latest stop-motion adventure, The Boxtrolls (2014). With a spellbinding voice cast featuring...
★★★★☆ During one heated discussion in Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley (2013), a lecturer insists that a ‘revolution in ideas’ is the best strategy for...
★★★★☆ “A genius who also happened to be a pornographer,” is the trademark denomination for Walerian Borowczyk. His infinite compulsion for sex and the...
★★☆☆☆ First unleashed on the festival circuit almost two years ago, it’s taken Francesca Gregorini’s The Truth About Emanuel (2013) a while to find...