Film Review: The Third Wife (2018)
byThe title of Ash Mayfair’s debut film, The Third Wife , evokes the dehumanising, commodified nature of life for its eponymous character. Her name…
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Film Review: Jumpman (2018)
byJumpman gets its title from the main activity around which the film is framed: a boy, Denis (Denis Vlasenko), who leaps in front of…
Film Review: What Will People Say (2017)
byIram Haq’s What Will People Say is a harrowingly personal film. Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) is a 16-year-old Norwegian who’s susceptible to the allures of…
Film Review: Back to Burgundy (2017)
by“You like wine, then you make wine,” says Jean (Pio Marmaï) to his beleaguered sister, Juliette (Ana Girardot). She’s battling unruly grape pickers, who…
Film Review: The Square (2017)
byChristian (Claes Bang) is a top curator at a renowned contemporary art museum in Stockholm. He’s handsome, well-groomed, charming, intelligent and articulate. From this…
Film Review: The Florida Project (2017)
byFor many of us, childhood is the most wonderful of times. It’s when our curiosity peaks, when our uninhibitedness leads us to forge countless…
Film Review: In this Corner of the World (2016)
byHayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has experienced so much success that, in the public mind, it has utterly co-opted the Japanese cinematic ‘anime’ landscape. When…
Film Review: That Man from Rio (1964)
byOver film history, there have been a number of exceptional figures that have defined their nation’s cinema. There is something about them that screams…
Film Review: Namatjira Project (2017)
byAlbert Namatjira was one of Australia’s most talented and accomplished artists of the 20th century. His paintings remain, to this day, an authority on…
Film Review: God’s Own Country (2017)
by“It’s beautiful here, but lonely,” says Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), a Romanian migrant who has found work as a farmer in the English countryside. It…