International Reviews
JULIE KEEPS QUIET Review: Tennis Phenom, Insightful, Incisive Character Study
Among major professional sports played around the world, tennis stands out for its unique set of demands on its respective athletes. Unlike team sports or even doubles tennis, singles tennis places full responsibility for success or failure on the...
Panic Fest 2025 Review: IT FEEDS, Face Your Trauma, Fight The Demon
Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Greene, and Ellie O'Brien star in Chad Archibald's new horror thriller.
Cinequest 2025 Review: I'M NOT AN ACTOR, A Long Distance Drama Unfolds
A man and a woman audition for a film; he from Frankfurt, Germany, her from Mumbai, India. He is a banker, she is a serious actor, but the only way they get the job is by working together over a...
HOOD WITCH Review: Run For Your Life
Golshifteh Farahani stars in Saïd Belktibia's searing thriller.
THE ASSESSMENT Review: So You Want Children?
Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Himesh Patel, Charlotte Ritchie, and Minnie Driver star in director Fleur Fortuné's savage science-fiction parable.
JAILBREAK Review: Martial Arts Mayhem, Behind Bars
Directed by Jimmy Henderson, the Cambodian thriller stars Celine Tran, Laurent Plancel, Tharoth Sm, Jean-Paul Ly, and Dara Our.
GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE Roars Onto 4K UHD from Criterion
Tempted to pay out the nose for a used Blu-ray from Echo Bridge? Don't! Criterion has you covered with a much, much cheaper option that looks much, much better too.
BEING MARIA Review: Rebuking Unchecked Sexism in Film Industry
Jessica Palud's film is a scathing rebuke to unchecked sexism that dominated the film industry for too long, and a well-deserved portrayal of trailblazing actress/activist.
A WOMAN OF PARIS Blu-ray Review: Charlie Chaplin's First Drama A Hidden Gem
Charlie Chaplin remains one of the most important and talented legends of the silver screen, one of the few performers who made a smooth transition from silent film to talkies, one who wore his anti-fascist politics on his sleeve and...
SXSW 2025 Review: ODYSSEY, A Super Tense Thriller With A Bloody Edge
Natasha Flynn (Polly Maberly) is a hustler. She runs an estate agency, selling and leasing properties all over London. Working from a flashy office with a cadre of hungry employees, on the verge of a profitable merger with a bigger...
SXSW 2025 Review: GLORIOUS SUMMER, Three Women Seek Freedom From Their Gilded Cage
Three women exist in an abandoned castle, bound by rules and rituals disseminated by disembodied voices, unburdened by want, but trapped in a dystopian wonderland they cannot leave in directors Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak’s Glorious Summer. An ennui laden...
SXSW 2025 Review: DEEPER, How Deep Is Your Love?
Jennifer Peedom's documentary goes deep on Harry Harris' pursuit of something that is always out of reach.
SXSW 2025 Review: FLIGHT 149: HOSTAGE OF WAR, Flown into a War Zone
Directed by Jenny Ash, the film asks why civilian passengers were used as pawns by powerful forces.
SXSW 2025 Review: LIFEHACK, Raw Humanity, Vibrant Storytelling
Ronan Corrigan's crime thriller is like a buzz haircut.
SXSW 2025 Review: WE BURY THE DEAD, Daisy Ridley Leads This Genre Heavy Exploration of Grief
After a tragic accident leaves hundreds of thousands dead, a woman volunteers for clean up duty in an attempt to find her missing husband in Zak Hilditch’s meditative zombie thriller, We Bury the Dead. After an accidental nuclear detonation by...
THE 4 RASCALS Review: Vietnamese Comedy of Errors Sometimes Turns Dark
Trấn Thành's latest populist hit is a broad comedy, overlaid with menacing melodrama.
Berlinale 2025 Review: LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS Merges Irreverent Humor with Queer Sci-Fi Coming of Age
Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs directed the funniest film of this year's Berlinale, a campy queer coming-of-age space opera.
Berlinale 2025 Review: 1001 FRAMES Exposes Power, Performance, and Control
Mehrnoush Alia's audition thriller examines the blurred boundaries between artistic authority and coercion in an Iranian take on a casting couch.
CAN I GET A WITNESS? Review: A Fable of Sacrifice & Remembrance
Two big questions often follow us through our lives on this planet: how long will we be here, and will anyone remember us when we're gone. Much of philosophy and art is devoted to understanding the importance of these questions...
SXSW 2025 Review: MY UNCLE JENS, Torn By Tension, Comic and Otherwise
Brwa Vahabpour's surprising feature debut stars Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, and Sarah Francesca Brænne.
