Film
I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.
What makes The Traitor ultimately worth watching is its epic sweep, the deft way director Marco Bellocchio and his below-the-credits team carve out the dramatic highlights of Italy’s twenty year war with the Cosa Nostra.
While The Assistant’s scenario alludes to Harvey Weinstein, the problem is systemic in the entertainment business and probably many other workplaces.
Among this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
All in all, Color Out of Space is only OK.
A critical look at this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts.
Who can explain why two of the five nominees are set in Tunisia? Or why several of them seem like student films?
To move from a bucolic beginning to a surreal, chaotic climax, and then to an elegiac epilogue — that, in my book, is the sign of a well-crafted horror film.
After rewatching What Did Jack Do? a few times, I still don’t really know what the hell I saw. But I decided that I don’t care, because I kept laughing my ass off anyway.
Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part One