Review: Subject (2023) – Truth or a Good Story?

Subject Early on in Subject, there is a sequence that tries to decide the true aim of non-fiction and the changing landscape of the genre due to companies such as Netflix and HBO. The question being, is the real aim to tell a story that fits what the filmmaker wants or what is truthful to …

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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Sheila Vand in A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night When I started thinking about writing this I wanted to entitle it 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and a 30 Year Old Desperately Tries To Stay Awake' but for many different reasons I decided against that. For one, that title is longer than …

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Review-Lite: Hong Kong Family (2023)

Teresa Mo, Tse Kwan-ho, Edan Lui and Hedwig Tam in Hong Kong Family When teenager Yeung's (Edan Lui) Chinese family gather for a winter solstice dinner everything goes disastrously wrong fracturing the family leading to eight years of estrangement and resent. However in the build-up to the winter solstice a visit from a distant cousin …

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Review: Alcarràs (2023) – Waining Summer

Ainet Jounou in Alcarràs There is a almost perfect simplicity to Carla Simón's Alcarràs, a film that makes a promise in its opening moments and never detours or dodges its inevitable conclusion. It's in this self assured storytelling that writers Arnau Vilaró and Simón manage to tell a story of family that feels both unique …

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End of Year Review 2022 Part 2: The 25 Best Films (25-21)

I recently read that while more films were released this year, the film industry won't reach the output of a pre-pandemic world until 2024 and while 2021 was one of the worst for quality cinema, 2022 has oddly found most of its successes, at least critically in the smaller films, showing that much like 2020 …

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