Nikole Beckwith’s surrogacy drama, Together Together, starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms, is sweetly subversive if a little thin.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Sundance Review: San Francisco students stress over college applications in Try Harder!
Debbie Lum’s documentary Try Harder! follows students at Lowell, a high-achieving SF high school with a predominantly Asian student body.
Acasă, My Home raises tough questions and avoids trite answers
Radu Ciorniciuc’s documentary Acasă, My Home follows the Enache family, whose patriarch has decided to live outside conventional society.
The Night Review: A low-budget chiller starring Shahab Hosseini
Kourosh Ahari’s The Night, a rare American-Iranian co-production, is a disappointedly cliched horror offering.
Highlights of the London Short Film Festival 2021, from The Long Goodbye to Filipiñana
Milly Gribben provides a run down of the best short films to catch at the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) 2021.
Charlène Favier’s Slalom is a complex exploration of abuse
Charlène Favier’s Cannes-selected debut, Slalom, is a tense pas-de-deux between a 15-year-old professional skiing star, Lyz (Noée Abita) and her coach, Fred (Jérémie Renier).