Film Reviews
In She’s in Portland, the elements feel superficial, with the core relationship feeling especially hackneyed.
Coupled with skill in front and behind the camera, It is not gore or a body count but pure tension that pulsates through Dead Sound, pushing it forward.
Downhill skews and scraps the richness of its predecessor and replaces it with dragging drama and cringy comedy.
Wilson Kwong ends his coverage of Sundance with reviews of Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor and a documentary detailing the life of a Hong Kong legend (Bruce Lee, in Bao Nguyen’s Be Water).
In spite of some of its trip-ups, it’s hard to find something so genuine in its portrayal of the prevalent anger and worry of these times.
Pivoting from steely resolve to emotional profundity, the brilliant evolution in its final moments cements The Whistlers as an unconventionally thoughtful experience.
This adaptation of The Call of the Wild doesn’t quite have the same impact as Jack London’s bold portrayal of nature versus man. But it’s hard to decry it all the same.
It has been all too easy for many to forget about what happened and is still happening in Flint. That alone should make this documentary essential viewing.
Come to Daddy oozes Timpson’s remarkable devotion to the emotional, surreal and vicious with grotesque gusto.
The Professor and the Madman limps out as a woefully half-baked and overcooked spectacle that mistakes reality for relevance.
Unfortunately, Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz aren’t enough to elevate Standing Up, Falling Down to success.
Kristy Strouse was able to catch a couple Slamdance 2020 films, Big Fur and Tahara, and both were wildly different, but equally compelling.
VFW is dumb fun, but unfortunately not nearly as much as the description would make it sound.
Lara Jean Covey is back and more relationship trouble is ahead for her, but the sequel feels like a missed opportunity. Maria Lattila reviews.
The Patient Man is a well-constructed thriller which deserves to be seen not only on the strengths of its convictions, but also for what it aims to achieve.