Broker – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 30, 2022 Reviews The newest South Korean drama, Broker, written and directed by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda introduces us to Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won), who steal babies from a church's baby box to...
Nous – Review Carmen Paddock June 29, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Alice Diop’s latest documentary captures life in the Paris suburbs, meandering between characters, vignettes, and...
Moon, 66 Questions – Review Josefine Algieri June 25, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Caring for an ailing loved one means carrying the burden of their deteriorating health, supporting them both mentally and...
Elvis – Review Alysha Prasad June 24, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in June 2022 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular, bedazzled musical biopic, Elvis, follows the life and career of actor and musician...
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Review Weiting Liu June 18, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2022 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Director Sophie Hyde and writer Katy Brand’s Sundance 2022 premiere Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a...
Everything Went Fine – Review Alysha Prasad June 18, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes coverage. François Ozon’s touching film Everything Went Fine (Tout S'est Bien Passé) begins just after 85-year-old André (André...
Pleasure – Review Alysha Prasad June 17, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. When asked at the airport whether she was in Los Angeles for business or pleasure, Bella Cherry (Sofia...
Decision to Leave – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim) follows a murder investigation headed by the highly respected detective, Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), who begins to fall for the primary suspect in his case, a...
Crimes of the Future – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Film auteur David Cronenberg is back at last with his newest sexy body horror, Crimes of the Future, which was arguably the most anticipated film premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Along with...
Close – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Lukas Dhont’s Belgian drama, Close, stars Eden Dambrine and Gustav de Waele as Léo and Rémi, two thirteen-year-old boys on the precipice of adolescence with a fiercely strong bond that seems inseparable...
A Night of Knowing Nothing – ADRIFT Review Carmen Paddock June 1, 2022 Reviews Any film about filmmaking runs the risk of counterproductive nostalgia - from the earliest days of cinema, singing the chosen artform’s praises has not always resulted in the most effective, critical, or...
El Gran Movimiento – ADRIFT Review Carmen Paddock June 1, 2022 Reviews Life and motion bubble throughout Kiro Russo’s unflinching glimpse into the lives of La Paz’s most impoverished. Filmed on 16mm in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and throughout recent upheaval in...
The Sacred Spirit – ADRIFT Review Carmen Paddock June 1, 2022 Reviews Chema García Ibarra’s film opens with a young girl reading off cards for a school presentation - all normal, until she declares that the unbaptised will have their organs stolen. She is revealed to be the...
Triangle of Sadness Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews Repeat after me: "Money! Money! MONEY!" Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness stars Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean as Carl and Yaya, a hot model couple who just can’t stop arguing about who should pay...
R.M.N. Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. stars Marin Grigore as Matthias, who returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village after quitting his job. in Germany and reunites with his son, Rudi (Mark Blenyesi), and his old...