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MARS EXPRESS: A Well-Built Android Neo-Noir
MARS EXPRESS: A Well-Built Android Neo-Noir

Mars Express finds the right words and plucks the precise emotional heartstrings to make such a film more meaningful.

BANEL & ADAMA: Duty And Desire
BANEL & ADAMA: Duty And Desire

A powerful and poetic debut feature, Banel & Adama signifies Sy as an exciting young artist to watch in world cinema.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS

From Cannes Film Festival Wilson Kwong reviews Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix winning All We Imagine as Light and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND

From Cannes Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG
Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail and Guan Hu’s Black Dog both tackle serious subject matter with subdued restraint.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

At Canne’s 2024, Film Inquiry reviews Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act (Le Deuxieme Acte), and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

THE BEAST: An Unnerving Collage of Henry James, Sci-Fi, and Angry Young Men

The Beast is about a man beset with loneliness and fears of a fatalistic event likened to an unseen beast haunting him.

CLUB ZERO: A Satisfying Serving Of Satire
CLUB ZERO: A Satisfying Serving Of Satire

Club Zero is often disturbing and always engaging, but it’s certainly not for everyone.

DISCO BOY: Not-So-Beau Travail
DISCO BOY: Not-So-Beau Travail

Disco Boy doesn’t quite work, though thanks to some quality craftsmanship and the always-fantastic Franz Rogowski, it does come close.

Horrific Inquiry: GOTHIKA (2003)

While Gothika may not have stood the test of time, or have the most plausible horror narrative, it delivers an eerie watch.

Horrific Inquiry: FUNNY GAMES (2007)

Horror films have trained us to expect the final girl, but Funny Games does not acknowledge this hope and desire for survival.

KUBRICK ON KUBRICK: I's Wide Open
KUBRICK ON KUBRICK: I’s Wide Open

For Monro’s Kubrick on Kubrick, decoding Kubrick’s films with the director’s own words serves as an excellent chance to write his own artful tale

APOLONIA, APOLONIA: Portrait Of An Artist By A Filmmaker
APOLONIA, APOLONIA: Portrait Of An Artist By A Filmmaker

Apolonia Apolonia manages to paint a fairly engaging portrait of an artist discovering the intimate balance between success and her freedoms as an artist.

INSHALLAH A BOY: A Woman In Trouble

The intense, empathetic storytelling of Inshallah A Boy will keep you emotionally invested up until the very last frame.

THE CRIME IS MINE: Friendship, Feminism And The French
THE CRIME IS MINE: Friendship, Feminism And The French

While The Crime is Mine doesn’t reach the lofty heights of the classic comedies that influenced it, it’s all too easy to enjoy such a screwball vision.