A usurper melodrama by any other name is still a usurper melodrama, and Fabrice du Welz’s latest doesn’t really try to cloak its genre conventions:
Category: Reviews
‘Comala’ Review: When Daddy Is a Bad Guy With a Gun
A thread of toxic male lying, cheating, stealing, abandoning and violence connects the scattered pieces director Gian Cassini assembles into the family quilt of “Comala.”
Maria Chapdelaine Review: A Leisurely Portrait of Early 20th-Century Rural Quebec Life
Among authors who didn’t live to witness their own success, Louis Hemon is a particularly unfortunate case — his novel “Maria Chapdelaine” was published in
‘Amira’ Review: A Clumsily Cranked-Up Collision Between Paternity, Patriarchy and Palestinian Identity
Since 2012, more than 100 children have been conceived using the smuggled-out sperm of incarcerated Palestinians — or so it is claimed by the end
The Craft: Legacy Review
When her mother Helen (Michelle Monaghan) decides to move in with her self-help guru boyfriend (David Duchovny), loner teenager Lily (Cailee Spaeny) has her life
Relic (2020) Review
After 80-something Edna (Robyn Nevin) goes missing, her daughter (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter (Bella Heathcote) rush to her dilapidated home. Yet when an initially fine
Jingle-Jangle: A Christmas Journey Review
Genius toymaker Jeronicus Jangle (Forest Whitaker) abandons his calling after his apprentice Guftofson (Keegan-Michael Key) runs off with his inventions and his wife dies suddenly.
Charlatan .. a fascinating, frustrating tale of bottled-up emotion
Peter Bradshaw Only last year at Berlin, Agnieszka Holland presented Mr Jones: a big, brashly ambitious movie inspired by the life of Welsh journalist
‘Dark Waters’ review : Todd Haynes plumbs the depths of a poisoning scandal
Peter Bradshaw Todd Haynes is such a distinctive authorial voice in American cinema, a genius from left field, notably addressing identity and sexuality, and
Thappad : trigger of the principal conflict point
Just a film? No. Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad, as pointed as Mulk and Article 15 but markedly less dramatic, cuts close to the bone. It is
