After a 28 year dry spell, the jazz biopic returns, with films about trumpet legends Chet Baker (Born to Be Blue) and Miles Davis (Miles Ahead).
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Mountains May Depart charts the consequences of youthful decisions
Told in three distinct parts over the course of 30 years, it begins as a simple love triangle and expands, along with its aspect ratio, into a story that reverberates through future generations: the country and the film’s protagonist change.
Vogueing at Berlinale: Kiki and Strike a Pose
Despite being a rather niche subject, two films about vogueing competed in the Panorama Documentary section at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal
Arabian Nights is the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive. It’s an enormous six-hour movie split into three volumes, made up mostly of separate smaller stories.
Fatima is a tender look at making a home in a new land
Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French.
The politics of sisterhood in Mustang
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.