Film Review: ‘Bombay Beach’
★★★★☆ Scooping the award for Best International Documentary at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Bombay Beach (2011) is the kind of refreshing, palate-cleansing experience...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★★☆ Scooping the award for Best International Documentary at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Bombay Beach (2011) is the kind of refreshing, palate-cleansing experience...
★★★☆☆ Filmed with 20 cameras at a headline show at Japan’s wildly popular Fujirock Festival, long-term visuals collaborator and director Adam Smith’s Don’t Think...
★★☆☆☆ Directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson (AKA The Rock), Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Caine, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) is...
★★★☆☆ Starring Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell and Kyra Sedgwick, Asger Leth’s Man on a Ledge (2012) is a thriller with a twist....
★★★★☆ It would be fair to say that 2011 wasn’t exactly a vintage year for comedies. The Inbetweeners Movie may have set the UK...
★★★★★ On the face of it, a relatively simple tale, Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) turns out to be one of the...
★★★★☆ Meryl Streep’s uncanny performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) is almost certainly going to secure the US star a third...
★★☆☆☆ The found footage formula – much like the recent trend of big budget, 3D filmmaking – appears to have just as many detractors...