Russian cinema gave the world the grammar of film editing itself, through the Soviet montage movement and directors like Eisenstein and Vertov. That tradition of bold, politically charged filmmaking cast a long shadow over everything that followed, from the poetic realism of Tarkovsky to post-Soviet dramas wrestling with a changed nation. See what Macca has made of it all below.
Rating: 2.5★
There is a moment in this film that I keep turning over in my mind. A young man lifts his mother, frail and fading, and carries her out into the landscape she has always loved, giving her one last look at the world she is about to leave. On paper,
Rating: 2.5★
There is a specific kind of emotional exhaustion that comes from watching people stubbornly refuse to save themselves. It is one of the most frustratingly, achingly human things a story can put on screen, and Mariya Saakyan's The Lighthouse (known in Armenian as Mayak) leans into it hard.
Rating: 2.5★
That opening sequence is something special. We're dropped into a quaint fishing village, Marat heading out to sea with his wife while her younger sister watches from the docks. Then, without warning, a colossal sandstorm rolls in across the horizon, swallowing everything in its path. It's
Rating: 3.0★
There's a certain kind of cinema that doesn't just ask you to suspend your disbelief. It grabs you by the collar and drags you headfirst into the chaos. Hardcore Henry is exactly that kind of film, and from the very first frame, it makes absolutely no
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Witch (2015)
Genre Action
★★★ — Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)
Genre Action
★★½ — Anna (2019)
Film images and data courtesy of TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
The best new reviews, a buried gem with where to watch it, and where the every-country challenge is up to. Free, no spam.
Subscribe free