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Venice Film Festival 2019: ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
Venice Film Festival 2019: ABOUT ENDLESSNESS

Om det oändliga (About Endlessness) can be painfully slow at times, but it is superbly captured with a truly delightful aesthetic. 

MONOS: A Hypnotic Look At Guerrilla Warfare
MONOS: A Hypnotic Look At Guerrilla Warfare

Monos isn’t simply a film you watch, it’s an unflinching descent into chaos in the best way possible, haunting you long after the film has ended.

Venice International Film Festival 2019: ADULTS IN THE ROOM
Venice Film Festival 2019: ADULTS IN THE ROOM

Adults In The Room is a hard sell, failing to deliver an intriguing narrative despite being about the political cunning behind the Greek financial bailout.

Venice International Film Festival 2019: REVENIR (BACK HOME)
Venice Film Festival 2019: REVENIR (BACK HOME)

Equalled with terrific editing and a beautiful turn of cinematography, Revenir is a terrific boiling pot of emotional intensity.

Werewolves & Lobsters: How I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF Explains Jordan Peterson's Appeal
Werewolves & Lobsters: How I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF Explains Jordan Peterson’s Appeal

Despite the overt silliness of I Was A Teenage Werewolf, it might give us a useful way to think about the cultural impact of one Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Venice International Film Festival 2019: THE LAUNDROMAT
Venice Film Festival 2019: THE LAUNDROMAT

An alluring fixture with a hefty and enlightening impactful weight, The Laundromat drowns due to an overindulgence in material and excessive narrative.

THE DEATH OF DICK LONG: A Twisted, Hilarious Trojan Horse
THE DEATH OF DICK LONG: A Twisted, Hilarious Trojan Horse

The Death of Dick Long might easily be the most bizarre film of the year, but it’s also one of the funniest.

Venice International Film Festival 2019: JOKER
Venice Film Festival 2019: JOKER

Dark and gritty, Joker is a pressure cooker of emotional abuse that is just ticking, ready to blow at every minute.

MINDHUNTER: Season 2: EP. 4-6: Family Strife, Manson & An Expanding Mystery
MINDHUNTER: Season 2: EP. 4-6: Family Strife, Manson & An Expanding Mystery

The plot thickens in episodes 4-6 of Mindhunter: Season 2, as the dramatic fallout of the first season fades into the rear view mirror and the intense conflict of this new season shifts to the forefront.

Venice International Film Festival 2019: AD ASTRA
Venice International Film Festival 2019: AD ASTRA

While Ad Astra is no doubt visually stimulating, ultimately Gray’s film is a meandering lifeless existential entity that overly emphasises on simplicity.

MARRIAGE STORY: An Examination of Divorce That Carries Loose Ends
Venice Film Festival 2019: MARRIAGE STORY

Marriage Story is a heavy-hitting and brutal feature that leaves no stone unturned and no fallen tear allowed to escape from the camera.

CinéfestOZ Film Festival 2019: GO!
CinéfestOZ Film Festival 2019: GO!

Go! is the perfect adversary to the rising encroachment of American animated films that dominate Australian cinemas every holiday period – it’s old fashioned for sure, but undeniably fun.

DRIVEN: Occasionally Effective, But Held Back By Biopic Trappings
DRIVEN: Occasionally Effective, But Held Back By Biopic Trappings

Driven is a film that, despite a unique structure and talented cast, doesn’t feel as inventive as it sets out to be.

MINDHUNTER S2E1-3: Return To Quantico
MINDHUNTER S2E1-3: Return To Quantico

Season 2 of Mindhunter reminds us why we adore this show: it’s gripping, intoxicating television, as engaging on a scene-to-scene basis as it is on a grand narrative level.

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE: Even Brilliant Blanchett Can’t Save This Mess
WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE: Even Brilliant Blanchett Can’t Save This Mess

Where’d You Go, Bernadette feels remarkably lacking in passion from those involved, save Cate Blanchett.