Radical
The unashamedly heartfelt actions of a radical educator deserve an equally heartfelt film, and RADICAL is top of the class.
Category Archives: Reviews
Jericho Ridge
JERICHO RIDGE understands the pure thrill of a well-executed standoff, and never once lets the pace drop.
Sorcery (Brujería)
Though there are resonant anti-colonial themes and an interesting perspective on witchcraft as a resistance practice, SORCERY is sluggish, with too much focus on atmosphere and not enough on character.
Robot Dreams
The magnitude of pathos acheived by ROBOT DREAMS without dialogue while being a visual and witty delight is a miraculous achievement.
Hundreds of Beavers
The effect isn’t unlike nostalgia, a longing for when humour appealed to our childish side, uncomplicated and universal; it is the easiest way to plaster a smile across your face for 100 minutes. You are unlikely to find a funnier or more inventive film this year.
Falling Into Place
FALLING INTO PLACE echoes Sally Rooney’s Normal People: it follows two young lovers who come in and out of each other’s lives while trying to come to terms with the heartbreaking hands they have been dealt.
The Dead Don’t Hurt
THE DEAD DON’T HURT is a clear labour of love and a throwback to an earlier era of Western, for better and worse. Carmen Paddock reviews.
Alien: Romulus
If this franchise has its Romulus in Ridley Scott, and ALIEN is his Rome, Fede Alvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS is the fall of the Roman Empire: a scattered jumble of icons and monuments faintly echoing a triumphant past.
Black Dog
George Jaques’s BLACK DOG shows a lack of confidence in storytelling, but his next film can be great should the choices be bolder and more confident.
The Beast
Audacious in the extreme, THE BEAST delivers nothing new on each of its premises, but its combination is bold and stylish. The film does not rise above its shock value in commenting on society, but Seydoux and Mackay are in magnificent form.