The enigmatic title of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film is neither a joke nor an artistic provocation. According to Greek mythology, bugonia is the belief that bees...
In Good Home, violence has many faces. Physical, psychological, economic, sexual — one precedes the other, yet ultimately they walk hand in hand.
“Have you ever seen snow?” – a girl from Capo asks a group of newly met friends. “Only in the freezer,” comes the shy reply. Everyone...
Caught Stealing is, at times, pure Aronofsky distilled to 100%. A protagonist hitting rock bottom, gradually losing everyone and everything he cares about.
Sorry, Baby, like all the stories Sehgal places within the “trauma plot”—is therefore first and foremost about coping with an extremely difficult experience.
War of the Worlds is an anti-surveillance film at heart. The aliens come to steal our precious data, and the indirect culprits turn out to be...
Weapons is, in essence, a very strange film—but by no means is that a flaw. It works well as meticulously crafted and skillfully directed entertainment.
Cattet and Forzani’s films – Reflection in a Dead Diamond included – are cinephilic gems, rich in intertextual references to European genre cinema classics.
All the songs used in tick, tick... Boom! were written by Larson—mostly for the titular show, but there are also musical numbers from Superbia and nods...
Death of a Unicorn, with all its flaws, turns out to be a model example of this rule: solid entertainment, constructed as God (the Producer) intended.