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Any way you choose to interpret it, Nomadland flourishes under the direction of Zhao, and bolstered by a brilliant performance from McDormand.
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland surpasses the wildest expectations to become the first true all-around festival standout of the year.
While the pacing, meandering plot, and showy camerawork will prove challenging to some viewers, the rewards of Roma are well worth the effort.
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film The Third Murder is a complex, rewarding legal thriller that is a notable departure from his usual humanist approach to character studies.
Cinema Novo is an impressionistic documentary about the classic Brazilian movie genre. It’s beautiful, but is too hard to grasp for newcomers.
Coogan and Brydon bare their truest selves in The Trip To Spain, resulting in an emotional and bitingly honest chord that rings mellifluous with the viewer.
It’s not one of the horror greats that many people make it out to be, but Saw is crafty and ambitious enough to warrant a horror buff’s time.
This insightful, genre bending thriller shouldn’t slip under the radar- it should transform Victor Almanzar to an in-demand screen presence.
So Yong Kim’s Lovesong is a minimalist, strikingly formed small-scale drama about two female friends slowly falling in love.
In this analysis of 2007 film Lars And The Real Girl, we talk about how Lars’s delusions are very similar to how we find catharsis in film.
Blue Jay weaves in and out of beautifully written scenes, with a minimalist visual style focusing solely on the performances and the interactions.
Imperial Dreams is a statement and truly is a cautionary tale, though not without hope – and, more importantly, stark realism.
With Certain Women, director Kelly Reichardt has created one of the most human cinematic universes in recent memory.
I was having a conversation recently with a friend who complained about how he gets annoyed when he sees child celebrities, as “they’ve already achieved more in life than I ever will and they are younger than me!” As a recent university graduate, without a firm footing into the grown-up world of work, I’m increasingly empathising with this statement, whilst also increasingly acknowledging how ridiculous it is. Why should I be bothered that people who are more talented than me are going places, just because they are younger?
SHOT CALLER: A Terrifyingly Accurate Castigation Of White Supremacy
What Shot Caller lacks for, narratively, it makes up for in its complex character study guised as a prison drama, expertly exposing human nature’s animalism.