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&
Rating: 2.5★
The 1970s were a fertile period for politically committed documentary filmmaking across the Caribbean and South America, with filmmakers working outside mainstream broadcasting structures to produce work that mainstream channels had little appetite for. The Terror and the Time sits squarely in that tradition. Released in 1978, the film turns
Rating: 2.5★
Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church in March 2013, and from the moment he stepped onto the balcony of St Peter's Basilica and asked the crowd to pray for him before he blessed them, it was clear that something had shifted in the
Rating: 2.5★
Aquaman arrived in December 2018 at something of a crossroads for the DC Extended Universe. Warner Bros. had spent several years watching Marvel print money while their own interconnected franchise stumbled through mixed-to-hostile receptions for Batman v Superman and Justice League. The pressure on this one was real:
Rating: 2.5★
Olivier Assayas has spent the better part of four decades building a reputation as one of French cinema's more restless and formally curious directors. Coming off the two-part miniseries Carlos (2010) and the well-received Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), in which he first worked with Kristen
Rating: 2.5★
Roberto Rossellini shot Germany, Year Zero in the summer of 1947, on location in the actual ruins of Berlin, less than two years after the city's surrender. That context is worth sitting with for a moment. The rubble you see on screen is not a set. The hollowed-
Rating: 2.5★
Post-apocalyptic science fiction has, over the decades, carved out a well-worn groove for itself: crumbling cityscapes, leather-clad survivors, and some vague warning about humanity's hubris. Crumbs (2015), the debut feature from Spanish director Miguel Llansó, takes that familiar premise and drops it, somewhat jarringly, into
Rating: 2.5★
Casshern arrives with a genuinely unusual pedigree. The source material is a 1973 Tatsunoko Production anime series, Casshan: Robot Hunter, which built a modest but loyal following in Japan on the strength of its pulpy, post-apocalyptic premise and its brooding cyborg hero. The property sat largely dormant for three
Rating: 2.5★
The Aztec death whistle is one of those historical curiosities that sounds almost too good to be true. Unearthed by archaeologists in Mexico during the 1990s, these small clay instruments shaped like skulls produce a sound variously described as a human scream, a howling wind, or something altogether harder to
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that announce themselves as Important Events and films that simply turn up, do their job with a grin on their face, and leave you feeling better than you did before. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) belongs very much to the second category. The premise is clean
Rating: 2.5★
The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world. By the early 2000s, decades of Soviet-era irrigation projects had reduced it to a scattering of shallow, salt-crusted remnants surrounded by desert, leaving fishing boats stranded on dry land miles from any water. It is one
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that arrive out of nowhere, make an improbable fortune at the box office, and then spend the following decades generating a rather uncomfortable conversation about what, exactly, we were all laughing at. The Gods Must Be Crazy is one of those films. Released in South Africa in
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