Film Review Archives: 03/2016

Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is based on the diaries, written approximately thirty years apart, by German explorer Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American ethno-botanist Richard…

“What would Jean-Jacques Rousseau do?” Political satires often tend to be dark and sharp-edged; but this little comedy is a kinder, gentler political movie, which…

Kelly Reichardt is a director who leaves a distinctive stamp on her films. They are known for telling simple stories in a subtle, understated manner…

To start with the obvious: no, there are no kasbah’s in Afghanistan. The writer was sufficiently attached to the rock-reference title that early in the…

Personal Shopper, French writer/director Olivier Assayas’ second consecutive English-language film, is difficult to categorise. It’s an indefinable mixture of classic ghost story, mystery, thriller, and…

This documentary is the companion piece to an earlier film, An Act of Killing (see below) by the same director. Nominated for an Oscar and…

Scheduled for release in the UK later this month, this film is both directed and written by relative newcomers. It’s a breakthrough for both; the…

Beginning in 2001, a series of films were produced which broke new cinematic ground on many levels. Dubbed the Fast Runner Trilogy (after the title…

Director Rahmin Bahrini along with veteran director/screenwriter Amir Naderi have obviously done a great deal of research in crafting this gripping meditation on the foreclosure…

Having graduated college in the 1970s, I had never heard of David Foster Wallace until I saw End of the Tour, based on David Lipsky’s…

Manos Sucias (or “Dirty Hands” in English) is a neat crime drama produced mainly by Spike Lee. It is the debut feature of Josef Kubota…