Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

Milk Teeth

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |

A young woman challenges the superstitious fears of her cult-like patriarchal community in Swiss director Sophia Bösch’s ambitious but uneven dystopian fairy-tale debut ‘Milk Teeth’.

So Unreal

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |

Amanda Kramer’s debut documentary ‘So Unreal’ revisits classic sci-fi movies and vintage cyberpunk thrillers looking for cautionary clues about our current age of digital dystopia.

Ibelin

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 22, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024, Tromsø |

Computer games offer a severely disabled young man an emotionally rich alternative life in Norwegian director Benjamin Ree’s moving, visually impressive documentary ‘Ibelin’.

Family Portrait

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured, El Gouna 2023, Festivals |

Director Lucy Kerr’s feature debut ‘Family Drama’ is slender and elusive, but highly atmospheric and hauntingly strange.

The Wall

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured, El Gouna 2023, Festivals |

Vicky Krieps gives a striking performance as a racist Arizona border patrol guard in Belgian director Phillippe Van Leeuw’s otherwise underwhelming contemporary frontier western ‘The Wall’.

Author: Stephen Dalton

Milk Teeth

So Unreal

Ibelin

Family Portrait

The Wall