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Clunky and at times, confusing, Here and Now fails to give Sarah Jessica Parker the chance to dive deep into herself and give the emotional performance she was hoping for.
In part three of our Tokyo International Film Festival coverage, we discuss a retrospective on the comedy classic Some Like it Hot.
The original A Star is Born remains a triumph, a powerful romance and an engaging look at the Hollywood of the era.
In part 1 of our Tokyo International Film Festival coverage, Tynan Yanaga reviews Chaotic Love Poems and Rent A Friend.
Mario tackles the stigma of being a gay man in professional soccer with remarkable realism and heart, with what could have been excessively melodramatic or exploitative.
Rodin portrays its titular character as a fiery genius who is much better interacting with lumps of clay than he is with human beings. For an artist biopic, this is both predictable and exhausting.
Though easily levelling with The Wonders in terms of visual quality, the lack of investment leaves Happy as Lazzaro a rather transitory collection of charming anecdotes.
On numerous conscious and subconscious levels, Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct is one of the most honest examinations of humanity and human society yet made in cinematic form. That is Anarchic Cinema.
Avoiding the classic cliches of a grieving teenager, Nick Naveda’s debut Say You Will will pleasantly surprise any movie lover, perfectly capturing the feeling of loss and romantic confusion.
Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself has heart, but it’s ultimately too shallow in execution to support his grander ambitions.
Kenneth Branagh and Joss Whedon have each put their unique stamp on Shakespeare’s classic Much Ado About Nothing, and both are essential to the canon.
Though Nappily Ever After begins as encouragement that Black women embrace their natural beauty, it soon feels like a judgment of women who put effort into their appearance.
With an interesting premise not given the correct treatment, The Escort stands as a cinematic experiment that didn’t quite work out.
With two likable stars playing unlikable characters, some witty repartee that borders on being too wordy, and an overuse of its finer points, Destination Wedding ends up getting lost in execution.
In anticipation of its induction into the Criterion Collection, we look back on A Story From Chikamatsu, a film with with a sharp focus on the social phenomenons of 18th century Japan.