Rating: 2.5★
Guy Maddin occupies a peculiar corner of world cinema, one that most audiences stumble into by accident and leave either thoroughly enchanted or mildly baffled. The Canadian director built his reputation across the 1980s and 1990s making films that look as though they were pulled from a vault that nobody
Rating: 3.0★
Garrett Bradley is one of the more distinctive voices to have emerged from American documentary filmmaking in recent years, and America (2019) is one of the works that put her firmly on the map. Running at just thirty minutes, it sits comfortably in the tradition of the short-form essay
Rating: 4.0★
Tunisia's post-revolution years produced a wave of filmmaking that wrestled openly with what had been suppressed for decades: questions of religion, gender, state violence, and family. Four Daughters (2023) sits within that tradition while doing something altogether more unusual with it. The film begins from a real
Rating: 1.5★
The short film is a curious creature in the broader landscape of cinema. Freed from the commercial pressures that govern feature production, it can take risks, experiment with form, and land a genuine punch in the time it takes to boil a kettle. Some of the most memorable pieces of
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Marking Michael Biehn at 70: a look back across Michael's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 0.5★
Peter Tscherkassky is one of the more singular figures working in European experimental cinema, and not especially easy to place if you came to film through mainstream channels. The Austrian filmmaker has spent the bulk of his career working with found footage and physical celluloid manipulation, building a body of
Rating: 3.0★
By the late 1990s, the slasher genre had made a full commercial comeback. Wes Craven's Scream (1996) had revived interest in masked killers and self-aware horror, and the wave that followed, from I Know What You Did Last Summer to Urban Legend, kept the formula ticking over
Rating: 3.0★
Jean-Pierre Bekolo arrived at Aristotle's Plot as one of the more provocative voices to emerge from Francophone African cinema in the early 1990s. His debut feature, Quartier Mozart (1992), had already marked him out as a filmmaker more interested in subverting genre conventions than playing it safe,
Rating: 3.0★
Bulgarian cinema has, over the past two decades or so, carved out a modest but respected place in the European art house conversation, with films that tend to favour economic storytelling, unglamorous settings, and a willingness to sit with uncomfortable social realities. The Lesson (or Urok in its original Bulgarian)
Rating: 1.0★
Robert Breer is not a name that comes up often in casual film conversation, and that is, in its own way, rather telling. Born in Detroit in 1926, Breer spent decades working at the margins of mainstream cinema, producing short experimental films that sat comfortably in the world of gallery
Rating: 3.5★
Brian De Palma's career is one of the more fascinating long games in American cinema. He spent the late 1960s making low-budget, countercultural oddities before pivoting, almost instinctively, towards the kind of suspense-driven genre work that would come to define him. Sisters, released in 1972, sits
Rating: 2.5★
By the time Marvel Studios released Captain Marvel in March 2019, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was already eleven years and twenty films deep. The studio was weeks away from the release of Avengers: Endgame, and this origin story for Carol Danvers was positioned as something of a bridge: the MCU&
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