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Upon her 40th birthday, writer/director Coralie Fargeat declared that her life was over. “I’m not going to be interesting anymore. No one...

Fate, destiny, providence. This is inyeon, a Korean philosphy. If strangers walk in the street and their clothes brush one another, it...

Spanning over a few decades, The Eight Mountains is an intimate epic about friendship, the ones we take for granted and how both the loss...

Barbie fever is in full tilt. It’s not just among those who grew up playing with and idolizing their favourite figurine who are excited,...

Beau is Afraid has been described a number of things by critics and audiences alike, but Writer/Director Ari Aster has described Beau is...

The older we get, our worldview, our priorities and sometimes our very nature change. It gradually happens whether we like it or not....

It’s been a while since my last review. My phone is filled with notes on every film I have seen since my last review - the anxiety...

Looking back, our years at school are often met with either of these two things: nostalgia in reliving the peak years of your life (oof),...

Ti West’s return to the horror genre is his best work yet - creating a voyeuristic slasher that not only amplifies his strengths but...

In this day and age, it really is a mammoth task to be able to provide a true family film that is actually for the entire family. These...

Café owner Kato (Kazunari Tosa) discovers that the computer monitor in his upstairs apartment sees two minutes into the future, while the...

Radu Jude often is a filmmaker that has no interest in masking his anger and frustrations with nuance and delicately crafted metaphors...

Right now, I feel that we are in a golden age of documentary filmmaking. Not only are filmmakers consistently finding interesting new...

Originally titled Soggy Bottom, Licorice Pizza’s name change lends itself to the nostalgic warmth its title brings to writer/director...

Delicate isn’t a word one would ever describe the Western genre. It’s a uniquely American genre that would prioritize and idolize the...

This year we have had a number of stage plays and musicals making their leap to the big screen. But the two that are notably significant...

Rebecca Hall is an actress of considerable talent, someone who has consistently held scenes and films together with ease (this year's The...

Creativity ebbs and flows differently from person to person. For some people, it comes so easily. For others, like myself, it’s an...

The Trip, or the original Norwegian title of I Onde Dager (direct translation meaning “In Bad Days"), is a black comedy that follows a...

There have been loads of wonderfully strange, visceral films that have come crawling out from their dens this year. Noticeably odd flicks...