Ben Is Back is at times melodramatic, but there’s good drama in the iron-willed mother driving her son around on a guided tour of his lowest points
Category: Drama
Roma (2018)
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is a peculiar project, at once collective and personal, intimate and distant, warm and cold. The story is undoubtedly personal: it is that of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young maid living with […]
Shoplifters (2018)
Shoplifters focuses its observant gaze on an accidental family, living on the fringes of society, around us but unseen by us.
Marvin (2017) – Movie Review
Choosing to thread too many stories, Marvin doesn’t land any of them, leaving us instead with a fragmented look at a character that doesn’t hold up to that level of detail.
Leto (2018)
Shot in a rich, evocative black-and-white, Leto offers a unique look at the lives of rock musicians in 80s Leningrad.
Leave No Trace (2018)
In its slow and contemplative tone, Leave No Trace demands your full attention, and will reward it with a heartfelt study of adulthood and solitude.
Woman at War (2018)
The concept is great, but the execution fumbles with its greatest asset, which is the comedic aspect of the story. It is far too silly to be serious, and far too serious to be funny.
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Next time someone tells you they’ve seen it all, show them this.
First Man (2018)
First Man is slow -too slow- which I am comfortable with, but it is also long -too long- which is harder to ignore. Hand in hand with its tranquil pace and its fixation to detail, though, comes a sense of upping the stakes, and when the flight comes, it is awe-inspiring.
Heartstone (2016) – Movie Review
Heartstone is tough, and unapologetically so, but there is a wounded beauty to it, in its dimly lit nights and its sparks of humanity between the sea and the rocks.
The Film Tower 