The 2023 Academy Awards: Thoughts and Predictions
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: The Oscars love a comeback story, and I’m not sure there’s one more indicative of the Academy’s push for more racial inclusion than Ke […]
Category Archives: Foreign
Luz (2019)
“If you tell her it smells like fish, she smells like fish.” It’s strange. I’ve literally sat through Luz’s dense 70 minutes three times. Twice concurrently and once more as […]
Aniara (2019)
“We’ve built our own little planet.” Aniara isn’t a nihilistic film, nor is it completely devoid of hope, but it’s also one with an uncompromising outlook on mankind’s self-destructive tendencies, […]
Climax (2019)
“When you do things either it works or it doesn’t.” Climax curiously starts at the end with a disturbing, soulless laugh and a few audible pleas for help before rewinding […]
Capernaum (2018)
“What do you want from your parents?” So real and so organic that it could be mistakenly classified as belonging to the Cinéma vérité style of documentary filmmaking, Capernaum tells a painful yet […]
Cold War (2018)
“Time doesn’t matter when you’re in love.” Is love ever really enough? Love for country, for the arts, for another soul? Can love alone salvage and save something or someone […]
Beauty and the Dogs (2018)
“Why are you playing with my nerves?” A French/Tunisian film full of social justice politics in a patriarchal world, Beauty and the Dogs hits hard because it’s so harrowing and so […]
Foxtrot (2017)
“These are your demons talking.” Radically simple with its plot and emotionally exhausting with its tee-tottering tone, Foxtrot is a film which I don’t think I would advise others to revisit […]
The Top 50 Films of 2016
What a year for the movies. It seems like I’m always having to defend the integrity and the quality of what’s actually available out there to curious family members and […]
Toni Erdmann (2016)
“Do you want to ruin me or what?” The opening scene of Toni Erdmann sets out to test our patience. A delivery man rings a doorbell and waits. Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) finally answers, surprised […]
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