Ricardo Darín is excellent as President Hernán Blanco of Argentina, who is facing various crises in his private and public life while in the middle of the Summit of Latin American presidents in La Cordillera. Darín […]
Reese Witherspoon plays 40-year-old single mom Alice, who has just left her English husband Austen (Michael Sheen) behind in New York and re-located to her late Oscar-winning film director father’s lovely house in Los Angeles. […]
Sebastián Lelio’s ground-breaking transgender drama and world cinema masterwork A Fantastic Woman (2017) triumphed at the Oscars by winning Best Foreign Language Film of the Year for Chile. It stars Chilean actress, lyrical singer and trans woman Daniela Vega, […]
Director Stephen McCallum’s punchy low-budget 2017 Australian crime thriller plays like a Sixties/ Seventies biker movie. It has a certain basic raw energy and revving dynamism on its side, but obviously it avoids anything like […]
Simon Curtis’s real-life biopic drama about children’s author A A Milne and his creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin Milne means well but it is largely miscalculated, misjudged, mismanaged and a quite frightful […]
Writer-director Samuel Maoz’s masterful family war drama is imaginatively, often brilliantly staged. Even though the film does not finally quite bowl you over, it has some knockout sequences that can certainly bowl you over. Despite its polished visuals, […]
Director Maurice Pialat’s 1974 French drama film The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] is a realist depiction of a woman undergoing the late stages of a terminal illness, going through several deeply emotional moments. Monique Mélinand plays […]
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