The Tragedy of Macbeth – Review Weiting Liu January 14, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our New York Film Festival coverage. The Tragedy of Macbeth marks Joel Coen’s dual venture into a metatextual adaptation of William...
C’mon C’mon – Review Weiting Liu December 4, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2021 as part of our New York Film Festival coverage. C’mon C’mon is writer-director Mike Mills’ tender, bittersweet coming-of-age docudrama that continues...
Drive My Car – NYFF 2021 Review Weiting Liu October 18, 2021 Reviews Inspired by author Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same title, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cannes Best Screenplay winner Drive My Car is an avant-garde metatextual curation interweaving...
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy – NYFF 2021 Review Weiting Liu October 11, 2021 Reviews Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s effortlessly beautiful anthology film comprised of three vignettes: a morbidly amusing love triangle, a seduction trap that goes awry, and...
Nomadland – Review Weiting Liu April 28, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2020. Writer-director-editor Chloé Zhao’s genre experimentation within the poetic docudrama has come to technical fruition in Nomadland, elevating her to...