Film on the Internet: THE ASSISTANT
Kitty Green’s The Assistant–like her follow-up film The Royal Hotel–is a kind of psychological horror…
Film on the Internet: PULSE
After watching Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s eerie Pulse, I read a few post-2020 retrospectives on it that…
Film on the Internet: THE ROYAL HOTEL
For March, I’ve been concentrating on films directed by women, and now we round out…
Film on the Internet: SAINT OMER
I should start this review by confessing that I never feel more thoroughly American than…
Film on the Internet: BODIES BODIES BODIES
Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies sees a friend group of trust fund kids hunkering down…
Film on the Internet: YOU HURT MY FEELINGS
My wife proposes that You Hurt My Feelings is set in the same gently charmed…
Film on the Internet: AFTERSUN
A sense of doom hangs over Charlotte Wells’s superb Aftersun. Eleven-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio, naturalistic…
Film on the Internet: WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
The three segments that form Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s airy, polished Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy aren’t…
Film on the Internet: LAKE OF THE DEAD
Lake of the Dead benefits from its crisp black-and-white photography and its strong sense of…
Film on the Internet: SUNDOWN
It’s almost impossible to discuss Michel Franco’s 2021 drama Sundown without spoilers, and it’s hard…