Review: Hundreds of Beavers
[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Hundreds of Beavers isn’t just the best comedy released to the general...
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[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Hundreds of Beavers isn’t just the best comedy released to the general...
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] With the possible exception of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then...
While Alice, Sweet Alice (alternatively titled Communion and Holy Terror ) ostensibly takes place in the early 1960s, its themes are...
I’ll say this for Torso : it wastes little time; within the first ten seconds of the opening credits, a woman has already removed her...
Like many a follow-up to a bona fide cult classic, Tokyo: The Last War (sequel to Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis ) is widely considered to...
Master Gardner opens with the quintessential Paul Schrader image: a character in an otherwise empty room hunched over a writing desk,...
How to describe She Is Conann ? The film resists literalist readings, eschewing traditional narrative in favor of concocting a...
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Near the conclusion of Isabel Sandoval’s quietly beautiful Lingua...
The Tempest epitomizes my favorite flavor of Shakespeare adaptation: lean, revisionist, and minimalistic (a musical number or two...
I should have my head examined for sleeping on Mikey and Nicky for so long; it’s the exact flavor of old school indie cinema that I...
Conquest is dark even by the usual standards of the dark fantasy genre. Armies of savage beast-men roam the untamed wilderness,...
[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Japan Cuts frequently programs movies about amateur filmmakers—a...
[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When introducing Japan Cuts’ recent screening of Toshiharu Ikeda’s...
Nezumikozo Jirokichi—recently screened as part of Japan Cuts’ Shorts Program 2–managed to hit three major categories on my annual...
[The following review contains frank descriptions of sexually explicit material (albeit in a tasteful, artistic context); YOU HAVE BEEN...
[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.] The Box Man is based on a Kobo Abe novel that is—according to my...
Recently, I’ve noticed that some amateur critics online (particularly on Twitter, but elsewhere, as well) tend to evaluate films as...
Czech filmmaker Jiří Barta’s stop motion adaptation of The Pied Piper is a triumph of style as substance. Every frame is both...
[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.] I somehow missed Junya Okabe’s ZVP when it was originally released on...
Star vehicles for musicians are hardly a rarity in Hollywood—after all, creatively bankrupt studio executives are perfectly willing to...