MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Sweetbitter
Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s absurd rom-com Fallen Leaves is a love it or hate it affair.
Captain, My Captain
Italian diretor Matteo Garrone leaves the mean streets behind in favour of a plea for humanity in Io Capitano.
Over the ‘Moon’
First-timer Sasha Chuk gets personal in the semi-autobiographical Fly Me to the Moon.
Get the Gauze
Ado-rom! That’s it. 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days is a better adolescent romance than most.
Ordinary ‘LIfe’
Anthony Hopkins makes the British Oskar Schindler into a compellign wartime hero in the otherwise honourable, but pedestrian, One Life.
Lost ‘Love’
Might as well cue up a Spotify playlist. You’ll learn as much as you will from Bob Marley: One Love.
Lyric Jumble
The Lyricist Wannabe will tell you why we should have a little more respect for Cantopop.
Payne Relief
Da’Vine Joy Randolph steals the show in Alexander Payne’s latest angsty white guy drama, The Holdovers.
A Gentle Apocalypse
What kind of apocalyptic thriller has no gunfire? Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From kind.
Hard Times
Huang Ji’s contemporary China trilogy wraps with Golden Horse winner Stonewalling.
In the ‘Zone’
Yes, the Holocaust really happened, and yes The Zone of Interest is as incredible as you’ve heard.
‘Moon’ Shot
Ignore the trailer: The Moon Thi4v3s is a solid heist drama with a standout turn by Michael Ning.
‘Pot’ of Gold
Whatever you do, don’t see The Pot-au-Feu hungry, or with a touch of wanderlust.
Perfectly Ordinary
Wim Wenders takes us to the toilet in Perfect Days, and what a trip it is.