Reviews

[Venice Review] Austerlitz

Having experimented with feature-length fiction films, shorts, and archival-footage documentaries in the course of his career, Sergei Loznitsa’s output since hi...

[Review] Sully

You know the inciting incident because it is not quite like any in recorded human history, and you could stare at the foreboding, nigh-apocalyptic poster to no ...

[Review] Demon

Nothing's allowed to derail the guests of a Polish wedding from having fun, not even the groom's epileptic seizure. You just pick him up and cart him out. Send ...

[Venice Review] Planetarium

It'd be one thing, a simpler thing, if Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium was a middle-of-the-road effort that's over and done with in less than two hours. Alas, i...

[Venice Review] Jackie

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín certainly isn’t beating around the bush with his latest film, Jackie, a strange, refreshingly cynical, and unexpectedly cerebral...

[Venice Review] The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour’s second feature shoots for Harmony Korine meets Mad Max and would have nearly almost hit the mark were it not for the gratingly aloof attitud...

[Venice Review] A Woman’s Life

Misery is constant and humor is fleeting in the world of A Woman's Life (Une Vie), an emotionally overcast period drama from French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé (Th...

[Venice Review] The Untamed

There’s something dark and wonderful lurking in The Untamed, the brilliant, frightening, hyper-real erotic mystery from the mind of Mexican auteur Amat Escalant...