Category: Martyn Conterio

★★★☆☆ Bertrand Bonello’s arthouse horror oddity Zombi Child works best as a film about colonial trauma and the tragic historyContinue Reading

★★☆☆☆ It’s time Cannes called a moratorium on screening the films of French director Arnaud Desplechin until he can comeContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Going in cold, the Dardenne brothers appearing to tackle the subject of radical Islam and a vulnerable boy fallingContinue Reading

★★★★★ Authentic being, leaps of faith and mortality haunt every frame of Terrence Malick’s latest opus, A Hidden Life (akaContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Chinese director Diao Yinan’s first film in five years, The Wild Goose Lake is a gangster flick mainlining onContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound serves as a history lesson and welcome tribute to a crucial elementContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams caps off an astonishing set of history-focused essay films, beginning withContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Expanding on her own 2009 short film, actor turned director Mati Diop returns to the timely subject of economicContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ A joint effort between Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Bacurau is an acid western depicting a ragtag groupContinue Reading

★★★★☆ From its powerful far right-baiting opening image of a football-mad French kid of Arabic heritage draped in the country’sContinue Reading