Smoking Causes Coughing (Quentin Dupieux, 2022)
The title Smoking Causes Coughing is a statement of direct causation. Doing this will lead to ...
2023-04-21 02:58:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, 2022)
Debut films are hard, and it's often easy to overlook some formal or narrative missteps. Everyone has t...
2023-04-21 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostA Respectable Woman (Bernard Émond, 2023)
Despite a 20-year career, Quebecois director Bernard Émond remains a bit of a mystery even to many of ...
2023-04-20 03:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Divide [La Fracture] (Catherine Corsini, 2021)
As incongruous as it may seen, I found myself thinking about the recent films of Adam McKay while watch...
2023-04-17 01:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostCoconut Head Generation (Alain Kassanda, 2023)
I don't have a lot to say about Coconut Head Generation, an informative but flawed documentary...
2023-04-16 02:22:41 +0000 UTC View PostYanagawa (Zhang Lu, 2021)
Back in 2014, when TIFF was still doing its City to City program(me), I covered the entire slate of fil...
2023-04-12 03:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostCruces (Maximilien Luc Proctor, 2023)
BY REQUEST: Florian Weigl
The usual disclaimers apply. Max and I are friends, an...
2023-04-12 00:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostEight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbiner, 1972)
BY REQUEST: Jacopo Fiorancio
Having now watched all five episodes (and indeed, a...
2023-04-10 05:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnys Men (Mark Jenkin, 2022)
One benefit of going to commercial cinemas to see movies no one else wants to is that, when a few other...
2023-04-08 01:56:37 +0000 UTC View PostKnock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan, 2023)
Read the room, Night. This is a terrible time to be making such an incoherent statement about gay paren...
2023-04-07 18:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lottery (Subscriber's Choice)
This weekend I'll finish Eight Hours Are Not a Day, and hopefully post about it by Monday.
... 2023-04-07 03:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostLeila's Brothers (Saeed Roustaee, 2022)
“Dostoyevsky Iranian style,” reads one positive review of Leila’s Brothers, the third fe...
2023-04-06 07:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostAlmost Entirely a Slight Disaster (Umut Subaşı, 2023)
Umut Subaşı’s debut feature is a curious beast. In many regards it is quite accomplished, and displ...
2023-04-05 23:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Face of the Jellyfish (Melisa Liebenthal, 2022)
In 2019, Argentinian filmmaker Melisa Liebenthal released a short film called Aquí y Allá (...
2023-04-04 19:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostAstrakan (David Depesseville, 2022)
Astrakan, the debut feature from David Depesseville, is a film that is at once deeply humanist...
2023-04-02 22:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostA Few Preliminary Words about....
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
At this point I've...
2023-04-02 04:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Upcoming Reviews
Today I started watching Fassbinder's Eight Hours Are Not a Day, and what do you know? It's ab...
2023-04-01 03:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostA Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire, 2022)
The more films I see by Éric Baudelaire, the less I understand what he's up to. They all seem so diffe...
2023-04-01 03:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostUtama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi, 2022)
BY REQUEST: Gavin Petty
Over the years I've discovered a common trait among many...
2023-03-27 01:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostParafango (Charles Atlas, 1984)
Among the major video artists of the 80s and 90s, Charles Atlas doesn't have the reputation he deserves...
2023-03-24 02:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostThere Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)
BY REQUEST: Kirk Johnson
Well, it was kind of inspiring to see that even at the ...
2023-03-22 06:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostBrother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin, 2022)
There has been a strong surge of anti-Desplechin sentiment brewing over the past few years. The critica...
2023-03-18 03:30:43 +0000 UTC View Postin water (Hong Sang-soo, 2023)
Allegedly kept out of the Berlinale competition for being "too weird," in water certainly has ...
2023-03-17 02:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostLaberint Sequences (Blake Williams, 2023)
The usual disclaimers apply. Blake and I are friends, and while I have been a pretty consistent fan of ...
2023-03-15 05:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostRANDOM SUBSCRIBER SWEEPSTAKES!
You asked for it, you got it! Using a random number generator, the following three subscribers have bee...
2023-03-14 04:18:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm Thinking....
I have been a bit distracted from watching older movies lately, mostly because of year-end polls. Now I...
2023-03-13 05:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostR.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu, 2022)
The title R.M.N. refers to an M.R.I., whose initials in Romanian are R.M.N. But of course,
Nostalgia (Mario Martone, 2022)
A funny thing happened while I was originally composing this review. I got about a paragraph out, which...
2023-03-12 02:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostCairo Conspiracy (Tarik Saleh, 2022)
When Tarik Saleh's Cairo Conspiracy (or Boy From Heaven, as it was called at the time...
2023-03-10 04:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostInfinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg, 2023)
Let's Go Brandon! In terms of evocation of mood, inarticulate menace, and a batshit approach to visuals...
2023-03-07 20:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post