I love film festivals. It’s as simple as that. You go, usually to a far-flung location, a place on a…
Read More →No matter how many films I see at a festival, I almost always miss the big prize winner. It’s almost…
Read More →Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah (Reina Hardesty) died suddenly, leaving him in a…
Read More →Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into longing, self-searching, and passion. Sophia (a magnetic Magalie…
Read More →Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by storm in 2022 with the one-two punch of…
Read More →Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room and a random assortment of objects can inspire…
Read More →The high-concept South Korean army thriller “Escape” clocks in at a swift 94 minutes long. It could have easily gone…
Read More →From the moment Dave (Ewan McGregor) frantically walks across a deserted parking lot, “Mother, Couch” feels empty. Dressed in a…
Read More →As I was writing up this second dispatch from Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, I couldn’t help but think that this…
Read More →You can almost hear the elevator pitch: “Legally Blonde” in space, an under-rated ditz who doesn’t dress or talk like…
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