PETITE MAMAN
An emotional connection, so essential to coming-of-age tales like Petite Maman, is mostly missing in this film. A cute idea isn't...
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FILM REVIEWS
Jan 2, 2022
THE CARD COUNTER
When the picture focuses on the bond between the titular character and a young man out to avenge torture tactics, the film is at its...
Jan 2, 2022
THE LOST DAUGHTER
Once a long series of flashbacks commences The Lost Daughter swaps mystery for backstory and the film loses almost all momentum. It is a...
Dec 31, 2021
ZOLA
Promising director Janicza Bravo keeps you glued to the edge of your seat for significant parts of this pretty short, but always...
Dec 29, 2021
BEING THE RICARDOS
Aaron Sorkin's Lucy Ball and Desi Arnaz biopic nevers gives you the feeling you are there, on the soundstages where it all happened. In a...
Dec 28, 2021
A HERO
When the picture highlights the powerlessness of the central character A Hero ranks among the best Farhadi has put on the big screen. An...
Dec 27, 2021
DON'T LOOK UP
The picture never finds the right tone of voice, struggles for wit and takes an awful long time to go from one story beat to the next. If...
Dec 25, 2021
ENCANTO
Despite the standard Disney ingredients, chances are slim that future generations will look back on the film as a picture that shaped...
Dec 22, 2021
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS
Even the action sequences and special effects pale in comparison to the ground-breaking work of the first film. During the way too meta...
Dec 21, 2021
THERE IS NO EVIL
There is no Evil is a prime example of a movie that uses small-scale drama to give insight in themes that touch all of humanity. The...
Dec 20, 2021
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
Despite the crowd-pleasing fan service, there's no excuse for any movie to be as lazily scripted, thematically muddled or sloppily edited...
Dec 19, 2021
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
The Worst Person in the World weaves ideas and themes anyone will relate to into an always entertaining, never dull whole. Anchored by a...
Dec 18, 2021
SPENCER
I can only recommend this film to people willing to stomach the two-hour long metaphors Larrain bluntly uses to show Diana is a caged...
Dec 15, 2021
THE HAND OF GOD
If The Hand of God was supposed to be a very personal film for director Paolo Sorrentino, you never feel it. Once again nodding and...
Dec 10, 2021
WEST SIDE STORY
I was totally won over by the sheer cinematic joy Spielberg and his team conjure up during 2.5 blissful hours. For the majority of the...
Dec 9, 2021
SUMMER OF SOUL
This is a fine documentary that mixes the sights and sounds of six scintillating summer Sundays in 1969, even if the film plays it rather...
Dec 8, 2021
PARALLEL MOTHERS (MADRES PARALELAS)
The newest fillm by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar is essentially a filmed play that lays bare the flaws in the director's recent...
Dec 7, 2021
THE HARDER THEY FALL
Large stretches of the picture consist of loud yells, but in the more intimate moments this western does come into its own. Even with a...
Dec 5, 2021
ANNETTE
Leos Carax lets the audience down by stretching out a simplistic narrative over two hours and all but ignoring the most intriguing themes...
Dec 1, 2021
THE POWER OF THE DOG
Individual scenes brim with tension and understated emotions yet they often feel strangely detached from the main narrative. Make no...
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