Tag: chicagointernationalfilmfestival

In his review of Paolo Strippoli's new film The Spiral, Martin Tsai writes about how the film presents a "recognizable family drama" that is ruptured by "horror [that] feel[s] like a violation of the film's carefully cultivated normality." In fact,...

For almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe...

In the Italian Oscar entry, the family that makes a deal with the devil stays together.

Throughout A City in the Forest, which tracks various forms of opposition to Atlanta's "Cop City" from 2020 to 2023, the filmmakers shout that they are press to ensure that they are not attacked by police who are violently arresting...

Vera Drew stars in and directs the alt-comedy.

The Hungarian black comedy Liza the Fox Fairy (read the review) ushered another new talent hailing from the homeland of Béla Tarr, Gyorgy Pálfi and Miklós Jancsó, in the person of the writer-director Károly Ujj Mészáros. After the warm reception and...