Evil wears many faces in Antonio Campos’ somber The Devil All The Time (2020) – a tale about one eager heart set against the parochial, pre-Vietnam America where religious fanatics roam freely. In a secretly located grove two people – … Continue reading The Devil All The Time (2020) Review
Seth Rogen’s double stunt – as an unsuccessful developer and a defrosted pickle factory worker – fails to rescue the inevitably shallow American Pickle (2020). To be in a pickle is a common way of describing a fairly difficult situation. … Continue reading American Pickle (2020) Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) stands in line with Charlie Kaufman’s previous works – it’s enigmatic, disturbingly dark and often perplexing. On a side note, it is also one of the year’s best films so far. When it comes … Continue reading I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Review
In Christian Sparkes’ no-frills Hammer (2019), son draws his father into a post-heist-gone-wrong drama. Minimal style of the film works because of its tight runtime, and the go-for-broke plot. Neatly packed in just 82 minutes, Hammer (2019) introduces us to … Continue reading Hammer (2019) Review
Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster Tenet (2020) rings hollow despite its riveting action sequences, superb effects and the enormous ambitions written all over it. Is there a person in this world who is even vaguely interested in cinema and hasn’t heard … Continue reading Tenet (2020) Review
A traumatized ex-cop finds herself trapped with a demon in The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) – a horror film you’ve probably seen a dozen times already. In an opening sequence of an exorcism gone wrong, a father strangles his … Continue reading The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) Review
Lucrecia Martel’s adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s novel Zama (2017) is a costume drama that paints rich existential poetry, but what works in the form of written language doesn’t translate on the screen. The foundations of existential drama are laid … Continue reading Zama (2017) Review
If anything, the only true revelation regarding Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) is how boring, uninventive and derivative a horror film can get. Movies, which are based on video games, carry the burdensome weight of living up to fans’ expectations, meanwhile … Continue reading Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) Review
Waves (2019) is a gorgeously filmed feature, and its dynamic narrative will surely gain a cult following among the A24 fans. However I can’t help, but feel that Trey Edward Shults had a better film on plate, but some risky … Continue reading Film Analysis: Waves (2019)
Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell make fun of Eurovision in this new Netflix Original, and while they mostly succeed in the undertaking, the real scene stealer is Dan Stevens (Apostle (2018)). All of Europeans know that Eurovision – the multinational … Continue reading Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (2020) Review
In Them That Follow (2019), a girl is torn apart between her sense of duty toward a despot father and his religious congregation, and the love she has for an atheist boy. In an ecstatic sign of belief, pastor Lemuel … Continue reading Them That Follow (2019) Review
Fasten your seatbelts, because Gareth Evans has produced a deeply disturbing mixture of horror genres in Apostle (2018). This year could be easily referred to as a tiny renaissance of cult-themed horrors. Almost all of the most rewarding horror screenings … Continue reading Apostle (2018) Review
In the Israeli horror The Golem (2018) filmmakers Paz Brothers adapt a tale about a monster that protects a Jewish community from hostile locals in the 17th century Lithuania. According to Jewish religion, a golem is an anthropomorphic creature that … Continue reading The Golem (2018) Horror Review
Floria Sigismondi’s The Turning (2020) scares with its lack of substance and out-of-focus plot – rather than with the actual degree of frights delivered. When Stanley Kubrick premiered The Shining (1980), numerous critics panned the way the film steered away … Continue reading The Turning (2020) Horror Review
An exercise in below-average crime drama, El Guardian Invisible (2017) finds itself trapped between too many characters, local fables and soap opera particles, messily clustered into one movie. Literature and cinema coexist in symbiosis, with the latter sourcing a lot … Continue reading El Guardian Invisible (2017) Review
