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3 May 2024

Film Review: Challengers

★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino’s terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.

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24 April 2024

★★☆☆☆ 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.

Christopher Machell / Reviews

17 April 2024

Film Review: Civil War

★★★★☆ 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.

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Film Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?

Christopher Machell / Reviews
22 January 2021

★★★★★ In July 1995, during the final months of the Bosnian War, Bosnian Serb soldiers massacred 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men in what...

Film Review: Dear Comrades!

Christopher Machell / Reviews
15 January 2021

★★★★☆ On 2 June 1962, during a protest about rising food prices and poor working conditions, Soviet soldiers opened fire on civilians in what...

Film Review: Pieces of a Woman

Christopher Machell / Reviews
8 January 2021

★★☆☆☆ Cinema’s unique facility to connect image, sound and narrative gives it a special power: there is not a medium that can portray the...

Film Review: Sing Me a Song

Christopher Machell / Reviews
3 January 2021

★★☆☆☆ Eight-year-old Peyangki lives in Bhutan, in one of the of the remotest villages in the world. As he trains diligently to become a...

Film Review: Soul

Christopher Machell / Reviews
28 December 2020

★★★☆☆ In his fourth Pixar feature, director Pete Docter grapples with matters of life and death to interrogate definitions of earthly success. Soul is...