MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Up and Away
Fan fiction? An Il Mare riff? Suicide jokes? A Balloon’s Landing is just weird and ballsy enough to be enjoyable.
Sweetbitter
Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s absurd rom-com Fallen Leaves is a love it or hate it affair.
Yes, ‘Guy’!
David Leitch, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt seriously go boom, in the best way, in The Fall Guy.
Get the Gauze
Ado-rom! That’s it. 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days is a better adolescent romance than most.
‘Pot’ of Gold
Whatever you do, don’t see The Pot-au-Feu hungry, or with a touch of wanderlust.
Haynes Code
The real masterstroke of Todd Haynes’ May December is making a woman who groomed a teen compelling.
Vive la France?
Coup de Chance is a Woody Allen movie. I don’t think any other details are required.
Adulting 101
Léa Seydoux is an absolute star in Mia Hansen-Løve’s sexy, smart, mid-life drama, One Fine Morning.
Self-Centred
Daishi Matsunaga takes on seminal Japanese LGBTQ+ novel Egoist and does not embarrass himself.
‘Past’ Present
Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with the semi-autobiographical Past Lives. You might want tissues.
Best Served Old
It’s the ol’ “go back in time and kill X before Y” thing, but done really well in Tokyo Revengers – part one of three.
Maximum French
Do you actually think Both Sides of the Blade’s love triangle, as interpreted by Claire Denis, will be simple?