Foreign
Film Review – Left-Handed Girl
Left-Handed Girl (2025) marks the solo directing debut of Shih-Ching Tsou. She previously co-directed Take Out (2004) with Sean Baker and has since helped produced his films from Tangerine (2015) through Red Rocket (2021). With this latest release, the two have switched roles, in a way, with Tsou taking the director’s chair and Baker…
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Film Review – Nouvelle Vague
The French New Wave has become such a milestone in the history of cinema that it risks being under appreciated. Take any film course and you’ll eventually arrive at it. It’s a major inflection point – we can see the change in filmmaking technique almost…
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Film Review – Dongji Rescue
There are sequences in the Chinese film Dongji Rescue (2025) that are breathtaking. Set primarily in or around the ocean, scenes feature characters swimming across choppy water, diving deep under the surface with no oxygen, or flinging themselves off sinking boats. These instances are so believable that…
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Film Review – Wall to Wall
Being a homeowner comes with its positives and negatives. On one hand, you get a place to call your own, to do as you please and to come and go whenever you want. On the other, you are financially tied to the space – you…
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Film Review – Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez (2024) is one of the most curious films of the year. Whether that is a good or bad thing will be up to the viewer. Certainly, it is an ambitious undertaking. Writer/director Jacques Audiard (in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius, and Nicolas Livecchi) has crafted a large…
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Film Review – Exhuma
Tense, chilling, and multi-layered, writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (2024) is a spooky horror mystery. To say that this is only a ghost story would be insufficient, as Jang starts from a supernatural/occult angle but uses it to broaden his thematic scope. There are elements of family legacy, the…
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Film Review – Trunk: Locked In
Deep within the vast confines of the streaming landscape is a German-language thriller that offers a bit more flair than we would suspect. Trunk: Locked In (2023) is a tense and visually flashy crime story. That’s saying a lot, given that it takes place almost exclusively within…
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Film Review – Society of the Snow
***Warning: This review contains minor spoilers*** The story of the Uruguayan rugby team – whom in 1972 crash landed in the Andes mountains and was stranded in the harsh climate for months – has been subject of countless news reports, documentaries, and films. I became…
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