Reviews

[Review] In the Heart of the Sea

The history of Hollywood’s distortion of and digression from the facts of supposed ‘true stories’ is long and infamous. Any movie that claims to be “based on a ...

[Review] Indigenous

A particular sub-set of travel horror exists to scare people away from real-life attractions with no regard for whether any threat actually exists. Films such a...

[Marrakech Review] Steel Flower

A suitcase clanks back and forth over the barren streets of Busan, spilling its contents as its owner desperately tries to stuff them back inside. This chaotic ...

[Review] The World of Kanako

Anti-hero is too light a word for the lead of The World of Kanako. A hard-drinking, tortured, virulent ex-cop thrown into an underworld of sociopathy and system...

[Review] The Revenant

After (mostly) constricting themselves to the confines of a single building in Birdman, director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezk...

[Review] Krampus

Michael Dougherty’s Krampus — based around the German humanoid folklore figure who punishes naughty children — wants to be the White Elephant of the holiday mov...

[Review] On War

The English language makes very few appearances in Bertrand Bonello’s On War, and it's to the film's credit that their possible connections and distribution fee...

[Review] Chi-Raq

Spike Lee's made his career by tackling, head-on, important socio-political issues revolving around race, inequality, and prejudice. With his latest entry, Chi-...

[Review] Victor Frankenstein

It’s taken a whole laboratory of mad scientists to conceive Victor Frankenstein, the latest exploitation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, but the resulting schi...

[Review] The Good Dinosaur

It is a shame that The Good Dinosaur should have to be released so shortly after this year’s other Pixar film, Inside Out. Following in the wake of the earlier ...