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Belfast

by Stephen Dalton | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, London, Red Sea, Tallinn, Toronto

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED OCT. 13, 2021 Kenneth Branagh won the Academy Award for best original screenplay for this warm, funny, visually sumptuous autobiographical drama.

Neptune Frost

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 26, 2022 | Cannes, Festivals, London, Spotlight, Sundance, Toronto

This frequently perplexing sci-fi musical has a lot to say about the politics of race, but its true triumph is its music and gorgeous visuals.

The Worst Person in the World

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 20, 2022 | Cannes, El Gouna, Festivals, Jerusalem, Karlovy Vary, London, Oscar shortlist, Spotlight, Sundance, Toronto, Vancouver

An insightful exploration of youth, ambition, romance, and meaning through the lens of a young woman you both identify with and love to hate.

Drive My Car

by Deborah Young | Jan 13, 2022 | Antalya, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cannes, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plat, Oscar shortlist, Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Toronto

Winner of the Academy Award for best international feature, Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ is the story of how love survives death in a long, measured, ultimately mesmerizing examination of the human soul.

A Night of Knowing Nothing

by Jordan Mintzer | Dec 18, 2021 | Busan, Cannes, IDFA, Spotlight, Toronto

A haunting low-fi meditation on memory, social class and political protest that won the Golden Eye documentary award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Huda’s Salon

by Jay Weissberg | Dec 17, 2021 | Festivals, Red Sea, Toronto

Hany Abu-Assad’s best work toys with questions of moral absolutes, yet his dissatisfying “Huda’s Salon” is hamstrung by a weak script and ill-advised editing choices that fail to build characters or tension, despite an interesting premise.

Where Is Anne Frank

by Jordan Mintzer | Dec 14, 2021 | Cannes, Featured, Jerusalem, Toronto

‘Waltz with Bashir’ director Ari Folman’s animated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary makes some valid points but takes a few too many creative liberties.

A Hero

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 3, 2021 | Cannes, Festivals, London, Oscar shortlist, Spotlight, Toronto

Feted Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s latest Oscar contender is a classy but underpowered drama about moral complexity and social media shaming.

The Middle Man

by Stephen Dalton | Sep 19, 2021 | Festivals, Toronto

A small-town misfit takes a new job breaking bad news to bereaved families in Bent Hamer’s droll, elegantly filmed tragicomedy The Middle Man.

Nobody Has to Know

by Boyd van Hoeij | Sep 16, 2021 | Festivals, Toronto

A burly Belgian farmhand working in Scotland loses his memory in Nobody Has to Know, the fifth feature as a director from Belgian actor-director Bouli Lanners (The Giants, Eldorado). Though hushed and sober in tone, this unusual love story has several unexpected...

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