International Reviews
Vlissingen 2024 review: THE GULLSPÅNG MIRACLE defies easy categorization
The Gullspång Miracle is the sort of documentary that in a just world would be a break-out hit. It finds peers in wild mystery documentaries full of twists, like Searching for Sugar Man and Three Identical Strangers. But by design...
Vlissingen 2024 review: FILM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE FILM Proves There Is Still Life In Celluloid
Director Peter Flynn is most well known for The Dying of the Light, a film about projectionists that depicts their lives and work as a dying art. In that film, film projectionists are the last defenders of an art form...
VERMIGLIO Review: Spellbinding WWII Rural Family Saga
Directed by Maura Delpero, Italy's Academy Awards-shortlisted International Feature is restrained, yet intricate.
EMILIA PÉREZ Review: A Pop Crime Musical Fantasia, Dominated by Women
French veteran helmer Jacques Audiard blends crime, telenovela, and musical into a genre-twisting fable about transformation led by Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez.
8 1/2 Blu-ray Review: Return to a Work of Grand Wonder
That should probably read: one of Federico Fellini's masterpieces. The fact that he followed La Dolce Vita merely a year later with 8 1/2 puts the Italian auteur in a rarefied group of filmmakers who have pulled off a one-two...
EASTERN CONDORS Blu-ray Review: A Love Letter to Sammo Hung
Criterion's new 2K release serves as a delightful intro course to the stunt filmmaker's career.
SEPTEMBER 5 Review: Narrow Focus Hobbles True-Life Suspense-Thriller
Peter Sarsgard and John Magaro lead the ensemble cast in a tense recreation of the terrorist attack during the Olympics in 1972, directed by Tim Fehlbaum.
Imagine 2024 Review: MI BESTIA
It's almost funny how well puberty and horror mix, especially for women. It's not just bodies and moods that change with hormones, but also the behavior of everyone else. Some see an innocent cherub changing into a possible sexual conquest,...
BLACK DOVES Review: Killers Like Us
Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw star in a Netflix spy thriller with similarities to Peacock's 'The Day of the Jackal' and Paramount Plus' 'Lioness.'
IT'S NOT ME Review: The Best Cinematic Self-Portrait One Could Wish For
Filmmaker Leos Carax is embracing Godard again more openly, for the benefit of composing a dense, visually sumptuous self-portrait.
4K Review: Criterion's GODZILLA Release Reigns
Our friends at Criterion have always been huge Godzilla supporters. They’ve got tons of titles for sale and streaming on their channel (there are more than 30 sequels!), so it’s no surprise that they recently released the film that started...
PARIS HAS FALLEN Review: Staking Out Fresh New Thriller Territory
Tewfik Jallab, Ritu Arya, and epitome of evil Sean Harris star in the limited series, debuting in the U.S. on the Hulu streaming service.
HEAVIER TRIP Review: Impaled Rektum's Sophomore Odyssey Is Worth The Trip
Impaled Rektum, the world’s foremost symphonic postapocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal band is back with a headbang in Heavier Trip, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s follow up to their 2018 underdog cult classic Heavy Trip. This time...
London Fantastic 2024 Review: THE KILLER GOLDFISH
This last week London International Fantastic Film Festival kicked off its inaugural edition with Tsutsumi Yukihiko genre mashup extravaganza, The Kiler Goldfish. The filmmaker, perhaps best known for his intense tale of neighborly discord 2LDK, has expanded his scope with...
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Review: Bold and Decidedly Unsubtle
Mohammad Rasoulof's film 'grapples with mistrust and paranoia' in Iran.
QUEER Review: Respectable Adaptation, Rife With Self-Loathing
Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey and Lesley Manville star in Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiography.
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.
