International Reviews
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.
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.
