Return to Seoul Review: An Aching Reconciliation of an Incomplete Existence
Two titles at this year's New York Film Festival were deep character studies of women with fragmented pasts and a future that attempts to haunt them. While Tod...
Soham Gadre
Leonor Will Never Die Review: A Meta-Textual Journey Through Filipino Cinema’s Past
Martika Ramirez Escobar’s creative and inspired debut Leonor Will Never Die employs a narrative trick à la Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. The st...
NYFF Review: Stonewalling Navigates the Malaise of China’s Youth
The ebbs and flows of a rather long, deliberately paced narrative can test most viewers. Especially difficult when it seems the movie’s central conflict doesn’...
TIFF Review: Tora’s Husband is a Meandering Third Feature from Rima Das
Rima Das is one of this century's most remarkable indie-filmmaker stories from India. Essentially a one-woman crew, she released her debut feature Village Rock...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever Review: Zac Efron is Out of Place in Peter Farrelly’s Plodding Vietnam War Comedy
Peter Farrelly’s career is a fascinating example of a director whose brand of cinema became completely out of vogue after following a major American political ...
TIFF Review: All Quiet on the Western Front Sacrifices Brutality for Cliché
In a year and festival where Steven Spielberg releases a reflective film on his own life and relationship to cinema, it's understandable that we get a war film...
TIFF Review: Blueback Takes a Lightweight Look at Bigger Issues
Australia’s answer to the 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner CODA is here. I’m only half-joking. Blueback is a bit better than the movie that most recently won Bes...
Clara Sola Review: A Dark and Magical Tale of Nature’s Revenge
Earlier this year, in Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone, a young witch becomes enamored with the life of humans. She starts to interact in a world where she...
The Long Walk Review: Mattie Do’s Sci-Fi Drama Warns Against Opening Old Wounds
Modernization and traditional living collide to strong political effect in Mattie Do’s third feature film The Long Walk. Its first few images see both an unide...
NYFF Review: Haruhara-san’s Recorder is Compelling in Theory, But Not Execution
The concept behind Kyoshi Sugita’s Haruhara-san’s Recorder is resembling the structure of the Naoko Higashi poem on which it's based. Said poem, a tanka, is in...
