SAINT OMER Blu-ray Review: The Divide Between Personhood and Motherhood
When it comes to dismantling discrimination, whether it be by race, gender, or other marginalized identity. does the law follow society, or society follow the law? While the public can often push for changes they want in society to be...
PURE O: Trying NOT to Say Every Thought in Your Head
I imagine that many of us have found certain 'foibles' (for lack of a better word) that we might have, have turned out to be, or turned into, problems that interfere with our daily lives. Sometimes to the point where...
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS Review: Dykes on the Run
There are times when a movie both needs to be un-serious, and needs to hit its target of cultural critique. There are times that call for some indie b-movie wit and raunchiness, a story that finds its charm in odd...
CONCRETE VALLEY Review: The Quiet Lives of Those Trying to Fit In
Urban parkland can bring both solace and anonymity. For someone who is new to a place, connecting with their environment can be at once daunting and daring - the constructed landscape being one against which an immigrant is often antagonized,...
MCCABE & MRS MILLER Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman's Frontier Western Remains a Masterpiece
Part of both the New Hollywood era and the second wave of Westerns, Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller might have suffered from poor box office on its release, but luckily did not have to wait long to find its...
HOW TO HAVE SEX Review: When The Party Brutally Stops
While partying hard and uninhibited lust is hardly only the arena of the young, there is something particular about how those about 25 years old and younger indulge themselves that is both weirdly admirable, since their bodies can bounce back...
FITTING IN Review: What Even Is a Normal Body?
A woman's body is a battleground: not for her, necessarily (though it can be), but more for a society that wants to keep women narrowly confined and strictly controlled. From the moment that the patriarchy decides that it is convenient...
LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP Trailer & Poster: The Deep Dark Is Not Always Lovely
We might be in the depths of winter, so I'm sure many of us are dreaming about nice, long walks in the woods when we can find peace and quiet, once the snow melts. But as any horror film fan...
CHANTAL AKERMAN Blu-ray Review: Criterion Showcases Early Masterworks
Chantal Akerman left us far too soon. Her work was singular and extraordinary; certainly, it's an incredible achievement to have made one of the greatest films of all time at the tender age of 25. (Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du...
MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE Trailer: Will You Have What They're Having?
Good romantic comedies seem to be hard to come by these days, even if the nature of relationships is always changing. Maybe that's why filmmaker Michael Lukk Litwak decided that the future was the right place to explore the numerous...
ORIGIN Review: A Profoundly Humane and Radical Journey
While many misdefine and scoff at identity politics as 'distracting from presumed more important issues, in fact, identity is at the heart of politics. The people who decide what politics will be, the rules and laws we will follow, who...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films of 2023
Hello all of you readers, and the best wishes for 2024 from all of us here at ScreenAnarchy! One of those best wishes is that we hope you will all see many good films. May our enjoyment of cinema be...
THE COLOR PURPLE Review: The Joy Is Infectious, If a Little Forced
Fantasia Barrino, Taraji B. Henson, and Colman Domingo star in the adaptation of the Broadway musical.
ANSELM Review: Art, and an Artist, Larger than Life
An observation rather than an analysis; a retrospective rather than a perspective. Wim Wenders' new documentary Anselm, about famed German artist Anselm Kiefer, is not the love letter and celebration of his previous (and superior) artist documentary Pina, but it's...
BLAST OF SILENCE Blu-ray Review: A Cult Late Noir Gem Remastered
There's not an exact timeline for film noir, the genre moniker given to a certain kind of gritty crime film that flourished in the United States in the 20th century. It usually dates from the early 1940s to the late...
ALL OF US STRANGERS Review: The Crossroads of Love and Memory
Loneliness has ever been a part of the human experience - after all, if we can be lonely even in a crowd, even among friends, it's been happening to us since we started walking upright. But argubaly it's gotten much...
EVERYONE WILL BURN Review: Visually Stunning, A Narrative Mess
I've never understood why small towns are so often praised as better places to raise children. Contrary to the popular belief that they are kinder and more welcoming, smaller places tend to be more isolated, and therefore more prejudiced, more...
THE CEREMONY Blu-ray Review: Claude Chabrol's Class Destruction Masterpiece
The phrase 'eat the rich' might be partly a joke, but it did originate in France, during the Reign Of Terror - it was pointed out by the leader a commune that, if the poor had nothing left to eat,...
IT IS IN US ALL Review: The Terrible Pain and Ecstasy of Grief
We can be forced to confront the most hidden parts of ourselves at the most terrible points in time. Perhaps that is the nature of such discoveries: only when we are laid bare by grief, by pain, by emotional exposure,...
THE SACRIFICE GAME Trailer: Home for Bloody Christmas
In my household, growing up, we were not allowed to do anything Christmas-related until after my mother's birthday at the end of November. I still cringe at shops that put decorations up, it seems, at the stroke of midnight on...