“Magellan” (2025) Review
Too often were colonial stories glazed with glorification that it makes sense why director Lav Diaz pours a gallon of demystification into his film adaptation of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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“H Is for Hawk” Review
It’s always tricky when a film tries to depict depression, from the subtleties of being distant to the darkness brought upon by a key event. There’s some admiration in trying
“The Secret Agent” (2025) Review
For trying to escape a Brazilian military dictatorship, the fugitive Armando (Wagner Moura) skates so close to danger as he tries to find a way out. In the opening scene,
“No Other Choice” Review
Capitalist satire often highlights the desperation of the poor amid the arrogance of the rich, as seen in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. But the comfy middle class might scoff at the
“Song Sung Blue” Review
What a bizarre musical biopic. Here is a story about a band trying to pay tribute to Neil Diamond, set in a movie framed as a typical musical biopic. In
“Resurrection” (2025) Review
Bi Gan’s Resurrection is a film that doesn’t so much try to decipher humanity’s existence as swim through its mysterious waters. There’s a scene where a child asks an adult
“La Grazia” Review
Italian President Mariano De Santis (Toni Servillo) has been nicknamed “Reinforced Concrete.” The name reflects how immovable he is due to his indecisiveness. La Grazia (Italian for “The Pardon”) finds
“Sentimental Value” (2025) Review
While there are plenty of films of a fractured family trying to heal old wounds, Sentimental Value attempts to do so through the language of art. The Borg family is
“Eternity” (2025) Review
Eternity joins a long line of afterlife comedies that treat purgatory like a business conference and death’s final door as a place that requires some existential truths to unlock. While
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” Review
Amélie Nothomb’s true story as a Belgian girl growing up in Japan is seen as a perspective between worlds that extends beyond the cultural. Wielded with the whimsy of animation,