Film Reviews
The six award-winning films from DFF Bradford’s 2021 lineup are alternately exciting, impressive, absurd and necessary shorts.
Featuring an understated performance from Tim Roth, Sundown forces audiences to reevaluate all of our assumptions about him and his unconventional choices.
While not essential viewing, the film is a successful directorial debut by Jesse Eisenberg.
Scream is a knock-out success, showcasing the power horror inductions can still wield through modernization and an honoring of the past.
While filled with gorgeous shots of the desert landscape, Borrego fails to engage its audience.
Allow yourself to be transported by the sights and sounds of The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs and be rewarded with a powerful cinematic experience.
Made pre-COVID, Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud is about two people forced into lockdown together when a toxic pink cloud envelopes the world.
With a deep dive into the varied world of AI, A.rtificial I.mmortality isn’t a bad film, but it’s one that suffers from a lack of focus and depth.
With A Hero, filmmaker Asghar Farhadi returns once again to the themes of societal strife that have run through his previous films.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a beautiful film, and despite its grim subject matter, there is an underlying sense of warmth to it.
The Matrix Resurrections is a curious and fascinating sequel, one which is completely aware of its own existence but also confused about why it exists.
Nightmare Alley is a tense thriller that will be sure to please audiences if they can get past the film’s length, but it still had potential to be more.
It might primarily tell a man’s story, but it’s the women—both in front of and behind the camera—that make Ever Since We Love worth watching.
Even more so than its celebratory aspects, Harold and Maude holds a special place in my heart because of what it meant to me when I first watched it.
Bursting with much of the iconic lore and characters as well as being the most meaningful of Peter Parker stories, Spider-Man: No Way Home delivers.