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Rabbit Trap Review: Dev Patel Leads Wholly Immersive Horror Story
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Rabbit Trap opens in theaters on September 12. It’s always thrilling when a horror film explores the power and possibility of sound. Much modern horror is too...
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TIFF Review: Claire Denis’ The Fence Takes an Unnerving Stare Into Darkness
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Is the idea of a Claire Denis film changing? There was likely an image one formed in their head when that name emerged: elliptical, sexy, avant-garde. Yet recent works are suggesting a different direction, one far more direct and less...
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TIFF 2025: Mile End Kicks, Maddie’s Secret, Poetic License
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On three films from the Special Presentations program at TIFF, including the directorial debut of Maude Apatow.
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Toronto 2025 Review: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN Whispers the Secrets of Russkiy-Mir
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Vadim Baranov was an artist among politicians, and a politician for artists during the tumultuous times of the late 20th century and early 21st century Russia. The son of a high ranking Soviet academic (who burned out and faded away...
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Toronto 2025 Review: CHRISTY, Sydney Sweeney Shines in Standard Sports Biopic
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Sydney Sweeney stars as boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd's sports biopic. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Toronto 2025 Review: HEN, The Chicken Comes First
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
A parable of corruption in Greece as told through the ingenuity and survival instincts of a chicken, it says something when the most normal film in a director’s filmography is an endurance thriller told entirely from the point of view...
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‘Roofman’ Review: Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst Barely Save Polite True-Crime Drama
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
For better and for worse, the film breezily keys itself to its main character’s demeanor. The post ‘Roofman’ Review: Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst Barely Save Polite True-Crime Drama appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Toronto 2025 Review: TRAIN DREAMS, Where the New World Is an Old Place
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Nature is vast and indifferent. It is often cruel. And yet the sunrises and the sunsets are glorious, any life is extraordinary, and regardless of the time, place or circumstances of one’s birth, there are unfathomable wonders intermingled with pain...
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BANG BANG Review: Still Combative, Even in Retirement
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Tim Blake Nelson stars in director Vincent Grashaw's punchy drama. Andrew Liner, Daniel Durant, and Jordan Gelber also star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
The setup of Hikari’s film is milked for all its humor and pathos—and then some. The post ‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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