Author Eddie Falvey

You could send yourself crazy trying to determine what A Dragon Arrives! is actually all about; what opens as a playfully elusive detective noir turns into something else entirely as fact and fiction begin to...

The fact that a horror film named Creepy fails to be the slightest bit creepy is the first crime of Kurosawa's impotent serial killer thriller. Further crimes include a script that is burdened by boring...

It's hard to accuse a 485 minute film of being 'too long', simply for the fact that it operates according to a completely separate set of rules to conventional cinema. That said, Lav Diaz's latest is too...

News From Planet Mars is an outwardly odd if quietly clever existential drama that trades in satire and biting black humour. François Damiens excels as Philippe Mars, a helpless man at the edge of a nervous...

Where to Invade Next is an amusing if somewhat shallow address of the various socioeconomic problems currently facing the United States. Idealism is admirable, but Moore's simplification of the potential...

Regardless of its subject matter, calling a film Genius is, naturally, a risky move; that said, while the film fails to live up to its namesake, it's a starry, solid account of a literary icon and the man who...

The world is determined by borders; some are literal borders that separate states, while others are imagined borders that fundamentally shape identity and govern belonging. Both, however, provide the...

There is a sense that A Quiet Passion might have worked more effectively as a stage play - an aspect no doubt contributed to by its interiority and restrictive budget - yet Davies' Dickinson biopic is...

Aided by some truly breathtaking cinematography, Yang Chao's Crosscurrent is an hallucinatory experience that ultimately has far less to say than it thinks it does. The film brings to mind more recent...

It's true that not all good stories make for good films; what Vincent Perez's plodding, predictable, utterly perfunctory WWII drama fails to recognise is that it doesn't even have a particularly good story on...

It has been some years since Tanović won an Oscar for his 2001 feature No Man's Land; while it is unlikely that Death in Sarajevo will attract similar attention, its failure to do so should in no way reflect...

After the one-two punch of The Guard and Calvary, John Michael McDonagh had pretty much guaranteed our interest in whatever he chose to do next; it's a shame, then, that War on Everyone is such a...

As both a writer and director Mia Hansen-Løve unveils a wisdom far greater than her relatively few years should permit; Things to Come (L'avenir) is a masterclass in restraint that proves that a film does not...

Anyone who knows anything about this film is promised by its premise that it will not be comfortable viewing. Warning: it isn't. At all. 24 Weeks is one of those films you will only watch once but it'll stay...

For such a distinguished novelist it's a shame that Philip Roth hasn't enjoyed a great adaptation of his work - until now. Schamus' debut feature is a rich but restrained account of a nation on the precipice...