Oeuvre: Spielberg: The BFG
Unlikely as it is, The BFG marked a lot of firsts for its creative team—chief among them, that it was the first Roald Dahl adaptation done by Steven Spielberg. It even marked the first collaboration...
View ArticleA Working Man
There’s something oddly relatable about Jason Statham. The 57-year-old Brit who’s been beating up bad guys in mostly mid-tier—though occasionally inventive—actioners since his breakout in 1998’s Lock,...
View ArticleDeath of a Unicorn
It may be early still, but A24 is not having a great start to 2025. Two of the three films that the studio has released so far this year (Parthenope and Opus) bowed to poor reviews. Only Rungano...
View ArticleThank You Very Much
Technically, the entire point of Thank You Very Much is to peel back the layer of a joke until we can see all its cogs working—how it came to be told, where it’s headed and everything in between. To be...
View ArticleViet and Nam
Viet and Nam has been banned in Vietnam. Vietnam’s Cinema Department claims the film’s portrayals of the country and its people are too negative, a decision that doesn’t come as a shock – Viet and Nam...
View ArticleHoly Cow
In Louise Courvoisier’s coming-of-age feature debut, no time is wasted transporting audiences to her small corner of the world. With the very first shot, we’re abruptly faced with a precious little...
View ArticleRediscover: Palms
Artur Aristakisian did not intend to make a film. He simply felt he had to record footage, wandering around his native Kishinev (now Chișinău) with a camera during the strange and fractured time of...
View ArticleGrand Tour
Miguel Gomes is one of the more inventive directors in world cinema. He also proves how much a great artist can do with a small budget. Gomes’s last two projects encapsulate this well: a vivid,...
View ArticleJulie Keeps Quiet
The struggle to “make it” in sports is not a new concept in film. The idea almost lends itself to a feature-length project, as the challenges the character faces can be shaped into the first half of a...
View ArticleHoly Hell! Caché Turns 20
The reputation of auteurs is always a fun dinner topic. With the power of two decades of hindsight, it’s typically trivial to place notable films and filmmakers into broad categories; “underrated on...
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