Rating: 1.5★
There's a version of The Seasons that I could imagine loving. Shepherds in the Armenian highlands, a brutal and beautiful landscape, Vivaldi's Four Seasons rolling underneath it all. On paper, that's genuinely poetic. In practice, I sat there waiting for something to happen, and
Rating: 2.0★
What does it take to make a billion dollars at the global box office? Apparently, you just have to do the exact same thing you did three times before and turn the volume up a little louder. That's the only conclusion I can draw from Transformers: Age of
Rating: 2.0★
You know the deal going in. Nobody sits down for a Michael Bay blockbuster expecting Ingmar Bergman. But even with every expectation already calibrated to "loud, chaotic, and relentless," Transformers: Dark of the Moon still manages to exhaust you in ways you didn't quite see coming.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a distinct, sun-drenched charm to the 16mm aesthetic of 1970s cinema, and Pim de la Parra's 1976 drama One People captures that era's visual texture about as well as anything I've seen from the period. I have a real soft
Rating: 2.5★
There is a very specific moment early in Crumbs where a supposed alien artefact is dramatically revealed, and I'm fairly certain it's just a repainted plastic water pistol. I couldn't tell you whether Miguel Llansó intended that as a joke, a statement, or simply
Rating: 2.0★
I'll be honest with you: I went into La Morte Rouge fully expecting to be floored. Víctor Erice is a legendary name, this short sits on the "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" list of the top 1000 films of the 21st century, and I
Rating: 2.5★
There's a particular kind of embarrassment that comes from rewatching a film you once championed and realising, quietly, that the years have not been kind to it. Casshern is that film for me. Back around its original 2004 release, I was absolutely floored by it. A comic book
Rating: 3.0★
There's a particular pleasure in tracking a cultural phenomenon back to its source, and Moonrunners is exactly that kind of discovery. Gy Waldron's 1975 film is the undisputed progenitor of The Dukes of Hazzard, and the DNA is all over it: moonshine runs, dusty Southern backroads,
Rating: 3.5★
Some of my wife's family hails from Cambodia, so I've heard my fair share of harrowing stories about the Khmer Rouge over the years. Those conversations, shared around kitchen tables and over family dinners, are heavy in a way that's hard to articulate. And
Rating: 2.0★
There's a moment in La Llorona that perfectly sums up my frustration with the whole thing. A character hears a strange noise. He goes to investigate. The camera frames him cleverly, one room in sharp focus, the adjacent bedroom sitting open and empty behind him. I was braced.
Rating: 2.0★
My kids are going through a full-on Pokémon phase at the moment, which means every spare evening involves trading cards, video games, and, apparently, me sitting down to rewatch things I probably should have left well alone. That's how I ended up revisiting Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo
Rating: 4.0★
Let me be honest with you: I walked into Project Hail Mary fully prepared to be disappointed. The early critic chatter was dominated by how "cute" and "funny" Ryan Gosling's companion was, and that framing had me bracing for some kind of cosmic Disney
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