Tagged Berlinale 2016

“This is an emergency!” Spike Lee proclaims at the outset of his latest feature. There is an anger coursing through Chi-Raq that hasn’t been felt in the director’s work for some time; as passionate as...

After finding success with his adaptation of Hardy’s Far From the Maddening Crowd, Thomas Vinterberg returns to his native language for a dramatic study into both isolation and community in which the...

It's hard to determine exactly what director, co-writer, and star Don Cheadle thinks of Davis. If he adores him, then that never comes through in his film; and if he has nothing but contempt for him, then...

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At times the premise of Saint Amour feels uncannily similar to Alexander Payne's Sideways, a comparison that will not work to its favour as it slumps in the shadow of a far superior film. That's not to say...

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...

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...

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...