International Reviews
RITA Review: Horrific Dark Fantasy That Inspires and Infuriates
Jayro Bustamante's ('La Llorona') magical-realist thriller is now streaming on Shudder.
FLOW Review: The Brave Little Cat in a Brave New World
Gints Zilbalodis' animated film is Latvia's official selection for the 97th Academy Awards®️
Best International Feature.
NEVER LOOK AWAY Review: A Dangerously Extraordinary Life
Journalism is in crisis; in part due to people now getting their news from social media, in part due to the web forcing many newspapers and television outlets to publish their work for free; in part due to people not...
Now Streaming: THE DAY OF THE JACKAL Feels Like a Week
Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, and Ursula Corbero star in a series inspired by Frederick Forsyth's suspense novel.
GHOST CAT ANZU Review: Jaws Will Drop
To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Review: A Major Work of Contemporary Indian Cinema
Payal Kapadia's soul-stirring docudrama, A Night of Knowing Nothing, delicately weaved together India's national politics, student protest movement, cinema, and its nostalgia in 2021. Her follow-up narrative film, All We Imagine as Light, proves that she is one of the...
DREAM TEAM Review: Analogue Aesthetics and Conspiring Coral
Imagine it's the 90s, in the early days of wide home computer use, with dial-up models, compact discs as the main mode of music listening, and you've fallen asleep in front of your television. You wake up in a dark...
OVERLORD: THE SACRED KINGDOM Review: High Fantasy, Invasion and War
Directed by Naoyuki Itō and animated by Madhouse, Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom is a continuation of season four of Overlord, the anime. The actual plot of the film has almost nothing to do with the series. You can watch it...
THE TROPHY BRIDE Review: Crazy Rich and Poor Asians
Uyen An stars in a broad comedy, directed by Vu Ngoc Dang, a box office hit in its native Vietnam.
100 YARDS Review: Martial Arts Masterpiece
Jacky Heung and Andy On star, Xu Haofeng directs.
MEANWHILE ON EARTH Review: How Far Would You Go
Megan Northam stars in a science fiction drama by writer/director Jérémy Clapin ('I Lost My Body').
STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH Review: There's a Better Movie in the Edit
“A great deal of this actually happened,” states one of the many opening text cards in Stockholm Bloodbath. This is after giving us the exposition that the Danish King Kristian II has placed himself in Sweden to settle some political...
THE APPRENTICE Review: Or, How To Use Film To Capture An Essence Of Donald Trump
Ali Abassi's Trump biopic is a good film, better than most will think, regardless of what politics you follow.
SPIRIT IN THE BLOOD Review: Coming of Age Surrrounded by Monsters
I don't want to discount the possibility of the supernatural, since there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, but most 'monsters; do turn out to be human. And more often than not,...
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT Review: Invigorating, Infuriating Documentary Epic
Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat doesn't hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It's a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack,...
Lausanne 2024 Review: MAKAMISA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE Confronts the Ghosts of Colonial Power through Subversive Silent Cinema
Filipino provocateur Khavn de la Cruz reimagines colonial-era Philippines through a fractured cinematic lens, blending experimental visuals with silent cinema aesthetics to unravel a surreal and haunting exploration of history, violence, and national trauma.
Lausanne 2024 Review: SELF DRIVER Spins Survival Satire in Gig Economy Gone Rogue
In Michael Pierro's darkly satirical debut, a cash-strapped cab driver plunges into a digital enslavement where the promise of easy money reveals a world of moral decay, autonomy lost, and the high stakes of a gig economy spiraling out of control.
THE LAST EMPEROR 4K Review: Sweeper of Oscars, Prisoner of History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Best Picture winner arrives to Criterion 4K UHD.
Brooklyn Horror 2024 Review: PSYCHONAUT, Love Heals All Wounds
A late night altercation on a dark and stormy night leaves Maxime’s girlfriend Dylan with a life threatening head wound. Given the circumstances surrounding how Dylan got injured Max can’t take her to the hospital so she takes her to...
I AM CUBA 4K Review: Near Perfect, A Reeling Contradiction
Director Mikhail Kalatozov's enigmatic look at pulsating revolutionary Cuba is "reality through bombast."
