MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Comfort Food
The Solitary Gourmet is one part food movie, one part travelogue, all TV series.
Marital Drama
True Love, for Once In My Life could be the definition of current Hong Kong cinema.
Oh, Mickey
Bong Joon-ho still hates the rich, but he adds demagogues to the mix in Mickey 17.
Love Scam: Take 2
Aside from positing 38 is practically dead, Salli is an inoffensive coming of romantic age drama.
Needs More Diva
Angelina Jolie closes Pablo Larrain’s bad bitch trilogy in Maria, but she’s not the baddest.
Worlds Away
Living in Two Worlds means well, but that doesn’t make it particularly exciting.
‘Room’ to Move
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is a meditation on death that’s really about life.
The Empire Strikes Again
Wuershan is two-for-two with Creation of the Gods Ii: Demon Force and damn, did he just promise zombies?
Still Waiting…
Italy’s 2023 box office champ There’s Still Tomorrow and director Paola Cortellesi have a few things to say. Sit down, Barbie.
Shopping Bad
Kiyoshi Kurosawa almost gets there in his grey market, online mob screed Cloud. Almost.
In the Moment
We Live in Time is standard romantic tearjerker fare. But at least it has Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.
Mother of a Mess
Hou Hsiao-hsien protégé Huang Xi’s multi-generational drama Daughter’s Daughter is a classic woman’s picture.
Wait… What?
Strange Darling runs the cat-and-mouse serial killer genre through a sexual politics blender. It’s fabulous.