MOVIE

Tuner review – woefully off-key

Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);…

3 days ago

The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides…

6 days ago

The End of It – first-look review

Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona's feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition…

1 week ago

Hope – first-look review | Little White Lies

For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s a scene at the halfway point that encapsulates…

2 weeks ago

Colony – first-look review | Little White Lies

In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one…

2 weeks ago

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – first-look…

Early into Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Sundance-anointed filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) explains to erstwhile scream…

3 weeks ago

Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born

Within a short time of being introduced to the budding kabuki performer at the centre of Lee Sang-il’s hit Japanese film…

3 weeks ago

The magnificent range of Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Cynthia bawls, Hortense holds herself together, at first over the phone and then in person. The camera holds mother and…

3 weeks ago

The Piano Teacher and The Limits of Desire

Romy keeps fantasising about Samuel, and it’s implied that BDSM now plays some role in her marriage. But, as in…

4 weeks ago

I’ve Seen All I Need To See review – grief in a…

Memory flickers like an old television left on too late. Images blur, and voices get lost under the crackle of…

4 weeks ago