Lucia's Grace, according to its distributor, was meant to be a comedy about a woman whose life has recently taken a turn for the worse.
For some, a simply good film is enough—and great, that is commendable. However, one should demand much, much more from David Cronenberg.
Dokument is a seemingly modest short film that nonetheless feels monumental, packing an incomparable emotional weight into just seven minutes.
Chalamet kept working relentlessly, and one of the key milestones of that period was Beautiful Boy.
Spider is more terrifying than horror. A dry, unemotional, and painfully truthful record of madness and suffering. You can’t take your eyes off the screen.
C’mon C’mon is a wise and empathetic piece of cinema. It encourages dialogue rooted above all in attentive listening to what another person has to say.
Exit Through the Gift Shop therefore has little in common with a documentary about a mysterious, anarchist artist.
We may resent Cronenberg that Jung does not undergo a metamorphosis into a cockroach, but that would not be entirely fair.
A small movie with great power – it hits without warning, grabs you by the throat, and stays under your skin.
Infinity Pool is demanding and difficult cinema, but at the same time very satisfying, because it allows one to experience nearly boundary-pushing sensations.
