Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

Stella in Love

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |

A troubled teenage girl finds love and liberation in the nightclubs of 1980s Paris in director Sylvie Verheyde’s slight but charming autobiographical retro-drama ‘Stella in Love’.

Medusa Deluxe

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 7, 2022 | Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022, Spotlight |

Debut director Thomas Hardiman’s off-beat single-shot murder mystery ‘Medusa Deluxe’ is a dazzling catwalk show of spiky comedy, fluid camerawork and fabulous hair.

Lola

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 5, 2022 | Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |

A pair of eccentric bohemian sisters build a machine that can change the future in Irish director Andrew Legge’s flawed but admirably ambitious lo-fi sci-fi oddity ‘Lola’.

Bullet Train

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 3, 2022 | Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022 |

Brad Pitt plays a laconic hit man in director David Leitch’s ‘Bullet Train’, a laborious action comedy about mayhem and murder on an Oriental express.

June Zero

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Jul 12, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary 2022 |

Director Jake Paltrow’s multi-character drama about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, ‘June Zero’ is a bold but muddled patchwork.

Author: Stephen Dalton

Stella in Love

Medusa Deluxe

Lola

Bullet Train

June Zero