#NYFF62 | Nickel Boys
There are recurring issues when films like Nickel Boys come along. One of them lies in adapting a literary piece …
Megalopolis
MEGADISAPPOINTMENT There is a term that has been employed in several reviews posted on this site about the expectation generated …
#TIFF24 | The Brutalist
Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) is a young director (36 years old) with barely three feature films to his credit, including …
#VENICE81 | Joker: Folie à Deux
The Joker sequel is a failure, an offensive fiasco by a collective of talented people, drunken with the success of …
#VENECIA81 | Kill the Jockey
LOOKING FOR THE INNER CHILD It is a unique occasion when in the competition of the respectable Venice Film Festival …
Horizon: An American Saga. Chapter 1
GRATEFUL CLASICISM As time goes by, what is true cinema is put in the rightful place it should have occupied …
#CANNES77 | Anora
NOW There are directors whom time gives them the chance of a lifetime. Such is the case of Sean Baker …
#CANNES77 | The Substance
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL… Thanks to The Substance, the term “body horror” as a film subgenre –if such a …
#CANNES77 | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
WATER, FUEL AND ACTION The reboot that was Mad Max: Fury Road introduced the character of Furiosa (Charlize Theron), whom …
#CANNES77 | Megalopolis
MEGADISAPPOINTMENT There is a term that has been employed in several reviews posted on this site about the expectation generated …
Dune: Part Two
WINDS OF SPICED SAND How can you explain the Dune phenomenon today? Some years after it was first published in …
Napoleon
WHEN WE WOKE UP, JOAQUIN PHOENIX WAS STILL THERE 1. Without much beating around the bush, this is not a …