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Few films break me these days quite like The Father did. It devastates and frightens in equal measure, offering an entirely new and...

Beginning is a slow burner, a tragedy of biblical proportions as we follow a woman grappling with the ideals of her faith, community,...

There’s a quiet devastation that lingers beneath the surface of Identifying Features. It softly rumbles, dislodging the dirt and sand...

A mockumentary is a fictionalized narrative in the guise of a fake documentary setting, often used as a great output for satire. When...

Stardust follows David Bowie’s US tour of his third album The Man Who Sold the World, and how it supposedly led to him reinventing...

News of the World is a film I really wanted to like, nay, love. It had the makings of something really great. A great lead, a great...

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a spiritual experience. It pulls you out from your surroundings and traps you within the...

On December 6th, 1989, a gunman entered an engineering class at the École Polytechnique. He singled out the nine women in a classroom and...

Original Review Date: 25 November 2020 Richard Linklater has always been a filmmaker fascinated with the concept of time through an...

Original Review Date: 22 June 2020 I don’t normally talk about video games, but I have to discuss what I just experienced with The Last...

Original Review Date: 29 May 2020 Some films have the ability to rock you to your core, embedding itself into your mind and eventually...

Original Review Date: 4 March 2020 This century has given us some of the greatest on screen LGBTQ love stories. Brokeback Mountain, Call...