Asghar Farhadi’s Everbody Knows is a melodrama that takes itself too seriously – one that pulls in each and every direction to try and find some thematic footing, and ends up not saying too much about anything.
In PUZZLE, Agnes (Kelly Macdonald), taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world – where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Despite Baker’s adept directional skills, and solid performances from the whole cast, Breath feels inconsequential, and the sombre visual and thematic tone feels like every other Australian social realist drama.
As well as getting a chance to check out witty theatrical drama The Great Pretender at Tribecca Film Festival, Film Inquiry’s Kristy Strouse also got to speak to director Nathan Silver about his film.
The documentary THE DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH sees renowned horror director William Friedkin follow a Catholic priest who performs the ninth exorcism on an Italian woman.
Why haven’t we found any signs of life out there in the universe, when statistically, there should be? This is Fermi’s Paradox, and in this new Fantasy Science column, we cover some of the explanations offered for this paradox in movies and TV.
Director Claire Denis is choosing a more diverse range of film projects than any other time in her career – and it’s best exemplified by Let the Sunshine in, a romcom that subverts genre expectations on the hunt for true love.
17 years after Super Troopers became a modest financial success and cult comedy favourite, Super Troopers 2 sees the characters return – and nothing substantial has changed in the intervening years, for better and for worse.
Stephanie Archer gives a roundup of some of her experiences at Tribeca Film Festival, including a sci-fi, documentaries, shorts, and more.
In Deadpool 2, after surviving a near fatal bovine attack, Wade Wilson struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste.
The 1975 sci-fi Rollerball depicts a world run by a global corporate state that has eradicated war, famine and disease – and yet, it can’t help but feel prescient in the era of Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Cambridge Analytica.
95 And 6 To Go follows the Takesues in a one-of-a-kind document; exploring the family’s innately meaningful transgenerational memories.
Stephanie Archer reports on her time during Tribeca Film Festival 2018, and reviews the animated short films curated by Whoopi Goldberg.
David Fontana discusses four films directed by women that show transitional periods of life, from an adolescent teen to an immigrant mother attempting to make it in America.
Lifelong friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-wrote and star in Blindspotting, a story about the intersection of race and class, set against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Oakland.