CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★★☆☆ “Let me tell you a story,” says Michael (Michael Silva), a spiritually inspired young man in the wastes of the Chilean desert. The stories he goes on to recount will appear intermittently throughout Christopher Murray’s new work The Blind Christ, which is in competition for the Golden Lion at Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ “I could’ve been a contender,” declares Marlon Brando’s brooding pugilist from On the Waterfront, and every actor these days seems to have a crack at the boxing picture to see if they can go the distance. Along with classic turns from Paul Newman and Anthony Quinn, we’ve had Stallone, Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ In a way the title of Charlie Siskel’s documentary American Anarchist is something of a misnomer. Anarchy as a political movement doesn’t get much in terms of description. Beyond some context about demonstrations in the sixties and William Powell, its subject is only partly American in that he spent Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Korean director Kim Jee-woon is a prolific and accomplished generic gadfly with a western – The Good, The Bad and The Weird – a horror – A Tale of Two Sisters – and a superlative revenge thriller – I Saw the Devil – all under his belt. With his Continue Reading