Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment in Westworld where the holiday is over and the horror begins, and Michael Crichton makes you feel that shift in your gut before you've even fully registered it. One second you're watching two blokes larking about in a cowboy fantasy, the
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Booksmart where you realise this isn't just going to be another end-of-school comedy coasting on nostalgia and gross-out gags. It's sharper than that, and warmer than that, and it knows exactly what it's doing.
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment watching No Dogs or Italians Allowed when you realise you've stopped thinking about the craft and started feeling the story. That's the trick Alain Ughetto pulls off here, and it's no small thing. The film announces itself immediately as
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in The Snow Woman where the frame holds on a vast white landscape, the silence so complete you can almost feel the cold through the screen, and you know immediately that this film is going to do things its own way. Tokuzo Tanaka isn&
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Fish Tank where Mia, alone on a concrete walkway, throws herself into dancing with a ferocity that's equal parts joy and fury. Nobody's watching. Nobody ever watches. And that, right there, is the whole film in miniature: a girl
1950s
There's something uniquely unnerving about a horror film that doesn't bother with monsters in the traditional sense. No fangs, no slime, no creature lurching out of the dark. Just your neighbour, your wife, your doctor, looking exactly as they always did but with something quietly, irretrievably
Genre Action
★★★½ — A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — Punishment Park (1971)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre Action
★★★½ — The General (1926)
Genre Horror
★★★½ — Carnival of Souls (1962)
Genre Animation
★★★½ — Americana (2023)
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