MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Almost MIghty ‘Oak’
Ken Loach (allegedly) puts a ribbon on a stellar career with the just fine The Old Oak.
Up and Away
Fan fiction? An Il Mare riff? Suicide jokes? A Balloon’s Landing is just weird and ballsy enough to be enjoyable.
A Dark ‘Day’
Director Kim Sung-su proves action and tension can be married to political history in 12.12: The Day.
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.