2010s
Here are highlights from the inaugural ACA Cinema Project online film series, 21st Century Japan: Films from 2001-2020.
The Columnist is an effective thriller about one woman’s revenge against her online abusers, but it lacks deeper meaning.
Queerly Ever After #46 analyzes 2015’s Akron, where two young men find love despite a tragedy that links their families together.
Another Earth, Mike Cahill’s sci-fi romance celebrating its tenth anniversary, is multifaceted and deeply layered.
In the long tradition of many Oscar submitted-films before it, its a shame to see Two of Us try to do too much.
4×4 is a broodingly effective thriller set in the crime-riddled streets of Argentina, with poignant thoughtfulness for the characters involved.
While it doesn’t give its audience straightforward answers, Echo offers a kind of diagonal empathy that’s refreshing and valuable.
State Legislature, Monrovia, Indiana, and City Hall may each look at different levels of governance, they all present the importance of public service.
With Sound of My Voice is celebrating its anniversary this year, now is the time to relive this classic Indie gem or to discover it for the first time.
Blizzard of Souls is a movie made up of things a good movie is normally made up of, but with no comprehensive thread to connect them.
Private Romeo is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that transposes the action to the fictional McKinley Military Academy.
Cobra Kai may look like a series leaning heavily on nostalgia and cheesy drama but deep down, it is a humane portrayal of one’s journey to redemption.
But unfortunately, as Atlantis shows us, it takes more than a few stellar shots to make a character’s journey compelling.
Spoor combines the plot of a murder mystery with the morality of an old-fashioned fable to convey a message of righteous environmentalist anger.
Although I applaud the moments of complexity, the film still falls into many of the same traps by simplifying the philosophical choices down to a binary.