The message of the movie appears not to go beyond the platitudes of MeToo: that “women” although, inevitably the victim, are also “strong,” while men invariably tend to be bad.
Together with The German People, the documentaries The Moelln Letters and The Lie were met with great interest at this year’s Berlin film festival.
Kneecap, the movie is part comedy, part fictionalised music biopic, part contribution to Irish language rights and part investigation of the state of mind of a generation in the North of Ireland.
Mickey 17, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, is a science fiction black comedy based on Edward Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7.
Late Shift in particular is a stirring tribute to an important layer of the working class that takes its work seriously despite adverse circumstances.
Despite its blazing colors and general elegance, The Room Next Door is at heart a misguided, melancholy film.
Films about the end of the welfare state, government surveillance and a new form of global wage slavery.
Many of the 20 short films from 18 different countries at this year’s Berlinale dealt with historical issues in one way or another.
Yalla Parkour highlights the resilience of the youth in Gaza, their courageous attempts to make something out of nothing.
The film’s portrayal of young people and their natural instincts, repressed by social conventions, spoke more to what was taking place in the early 1970s than in the 1900s.
There are striking images and certain convincing performances, but on the whole the filmmakers seem very much out of their depth. The work is starved of genuine historical and social insight.
“There used to be skinheads in bomber jackets and combat boots. Today, however, the neo-Nazis are sitting in parliament wearing ties and suits!”
Horror films are not, generally speaking, the first place one typically expects to find “substantive” artistic, social or psychological material.
By taking a subjective, “lyrical” approach, director RaMell Ross has turned a novel about racism into a narrower, murkier movie.
The film depicts the world of sex workers convincingly, before evolving into a type of dark “screwball comedy.”
More than 4 million Brazilians have seen Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here, the 5th highest box office in the country’s history.
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) is an Expressionist masterpiece that reflects and speaks to the anxieties of its time.
“When it comes to people coming together in India, and really everywhere, the different cultures, languages and identities often come in the way of that unity.”
Gia Coppola’s depiction of aging entertainers in “America’s adult playground” is a turn to serious subject matter, and the results are generally impressive.
Leigh has stood out importantly as someone attempting to make complicated and sensitive—and socially engaged films, which are also accessible to broad audiences
