Talk To Her
Almodóvar muddies the waters between good and bad, masculine and feminine, movement and inertia, real life and spectacle with TALK TO HER.
Category Archives: Reviews
The Great Gatsby
Mixed performances and a mismanaged soundtrack balanced by a powerful denouement: Dan Harling reviews Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of THE GREAT GATSBY.
Ran
Kurosawa’s RAN forces us into a cool intellectual appraisal of bloody vengeance, betrayal, and moral collapse, writes Keith Braithwaite.
Mud
Strong performances and a confident tone mark out this highly enjoyable slice of Southern Gothic, writes Gavin Midgley.
I'm So Excited
Pedro Almodovar’s latest is like a glass of cheap Cava, writes Gavin Midgley: fizzy and fun while it lasts, but mostly forgettable and nothing to write home about.
In The House
Treading a fine line between creepy and charming, IN THE HOUSE ingratiates itself with the audience before pulling off a nimble series of twists and reversals.
Il Grido
The streets are waterlogged. The workers are revolting. Antonioni’s GRIDO is a simple tale of lost love and bleak perambulation, of snatched moments and merciless mechanics.
Boccaccio ’70
At the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast, the Belfast Film Festival overlaps with the Italian Film Festival this week. Rosy Hunt looks back at a classic Italian anthology film.
The Place Beyond The Pines
An overly ambitious, sprawling drama with commendable performances. At the heart of THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES there is an engaging film, but it is lost in an abundance of narrative.
Gatekeepers
The greatest triumph of GATEKEEPERS is the filmmaker’s ability to persuade the former heads of Israel’s Secret Service to speak so openly, writes Sarah McIntosh.