Film Review: ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’
★★☆☆☆ Nine years after the release of 2005’s Sin City, directors Robert Rodriquez and Frank Miller (who also wrote the script) reunite for Sin...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★★☆ 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.
★★☆☆☆ 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.
★★☆☆☆ Maïwenn’s French period drama Jeanne du Barry is the perfect opening salvo for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its vacuous politics drowned out by the thunderous sound of it slapping its own back.
★★☆☆☆ Nine years after the release of 2005’s Sin City, directors Robert Rodriquez and Frank Miller (who also wrote the script) reunite for Sin...
★★★★☆ The pursuit of truth is a demand that cannot be fulfilled through seeing alone. An encounter with cinema resides through a locale of...
★★★★☆ There’s a popular myth often perpetuated in movies that humans only employ a small percentage of their brain’s capacity. One of the reasons...
★★☆☆☆ At least nobody says “there’s a storm coming”, because every other disaster cliché going is thrown at Into the Storm (2014). There’s the...
★★★☆☆ Scottish musicals are a lot like buses – you wait years for one to come along and then two arrive near simultaneously. Following...
★★☆☆☆ The bible has long served as one of the great repositories of supernatural folklore in western culture. It raises its head again in...
★★★★☆ Place is an inherent part of cinema, it’s the sand beneath the feet of form and breathes around content whilst acting within the...
★★★★☆ Tracks (2013), The Painted Veil director John Curran’s award-winning outback drama starring Mia Wasikowska (Lawless, Stoker), tells the true story of Robyn Davidson,...