Review: High Life
High Life is a cinematic contraption that ensnares and mesmerises. It is directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis, working in her first...
Review: Damsel
She may be a damsel, but she's certainly in no distress, at least not in the expected way. When we first meet Penelope (Mia Wasikowska),...
Review: Good Time
Since the end of the popular tween romance fantasy Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson has been committed to proving himself more than just...
Review: The Lost City of Z
Unlike Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now or Don Lope de Aguirre in Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Lost City of Z's Major Percy Fawcett's...
Review: The Childhood of a Leader
Is monstrosity born out of the dregs of mundanity? Is it fashioned by those who raise by neglect? Is it already in the bloodstream,...
Review: Queen of the Desert
It would be reductive to call Gertrude Bell the female Lawrence of Arabia given that, despite their shared similarities, Bell remains...
Review: Life
When ambitious shutterbug Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) first met James Dean (Dane DeHaan) in 1955, Dean was not yet James Dean. The...
Review: Maps to the Stars
What beautiful beasts David Cronenberg dissects with surgical relish on the operating table that is Maps to the Stars. There's actress...
Review: The Rover
Narratively lean yet cinematographically lush, The Rover is a chamber piece set in an expansive location. This and that happens with...
