Alex Heeney reviews Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka's film Stonewalling. China's two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with …
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Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Full Time: a heart-pounding thriller from Éric Gravel
In Full Time, writer-director Éric Gravel transforms a week in the life of a working mother into a heart-pounding thriller. It puts us in her stressed …
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Fantasia Review: Just Remembering tells a romance in reverse
Japanese writer-director Daigo Matsui’s Just Remembering is a romance told in reverse order that not only acknowledges COVID but incorporates some sense of how …
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Fantasia Review: Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons
The first animated feature out of Portugal, Nuno Beato's My Grandfather's Demons, uses digital and stop-motion animation to tell a story of intergenerational …
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Both Sides of the Blade: Claire Denis explores lies and love
Claire Denis's Silver Bear Winner Both Sides of the Blade explores the lies we tell the people we love (and ourselves). It's screening at the SF Film Festival …
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Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension
Manuela Martelli's feature debut, Chile 1976, explores one woman's struggle with misogyny and corruption under Pinochet. The film 1976 screened in the …
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