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25/09/2019
Nordisk Panorama 2019: Our festival highlights
The Nordisk Panorama Film Festival returned to Sweden for its 30th year, showcasing new and established talent in the fields ofContinue Reading
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20/09/2019
Film Review: The Farewell
★★★★☆ “Based on an actual lie” is the text that sets audiences up rather nicely for the lilting tone ofContinue Reading
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18/09/2019
Film Review: Ad Astra
★★★★★ From the thin blue line that divides the brothers of We Own the Night to the disrupted family units of LittleContinue Reading
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16/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Jojo Rabbit takes People’s Choice Award
Despite dividing critics following its world premiere, Jojo Rabbit won over audiences in the public vote: Joker may well have had the last laughContinue Reading
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16/09/2019
Toronto 2019: So Long, My Son review
★★★★★ “I don’t want to be like my mum,” Haohao (Du Jiang) tells old family friends Yaojun (Wang Jingchung) andContinue Reading
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15/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Sea Fever review
★★☆☆☆ A creature feature for the environmentalist age, Irish TV and film director Neasa Hardiman’s latest project is a fun andContinue Reading
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15/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Love Child review
★★★★☆ Danish director Eva Muldad turns her attention to an Iranian family caught up in international bureaucracy as they fleeContinue Reading
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15/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Honey Boy review
★★★☆☆ Alma Har’el’s narrative debut is a suitably personal autobiography. Written by Shia LaBeouf, the film explores his past asContinue Reading
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12/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Jallikattu review
★★★★★ Can violence be contained through ritual? Does sanctioning violence in specific contexts purge the need for its spontaneous outburst?Continue Reading
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12/09/2019
Toronto 2019: To the Ends of the Earth review
★★★★☆ Marking the 25th anniversary of diplomacy between Japan and Uzbekistan, Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest is a freewheeling comedyContinue Reading
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12/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Saint Maud review
★★★★☆ Director Rose Glass makes her feature debut with this visceral psychological horror. While the festival chatter has lately beenContinue Reading
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12/09/2019
Film Review: For Sama
★★★★★ Waad al-Kateab was a student at the University of Aleppo as the first anti-Assad demonstrations broke out in herContinue Reading
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12/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Knives Out review
★★★★☆ For his fifth feature, Knives Out, American director Rian Johnson returns to the smaller-scale crime fiction that made his name. TheContinue Reading
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11/09/2019
Toronto 2019: Jojo Rabbit review
★★★★☆ “Fuck off, Hitler!” The spirit of Taika Waititi’s satirical comedy is certainly clear in its demands for the monsterContinue Reading
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11/09/2019
Toronto 2019: The Other Lamb review
★★★★☆ This year’s surfeit of films about cults hits its stride with Malgorzata Szumowska’s first English-language picture. A visceral, AtwoodianContinue Reading