Half of a Yellow Sun review: history with a romantic flourish
Oh what a lovely film! As romance and history, this is by turns funny and tragic, suspenseful and celebratory, and never less than solidly entertaining.
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The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears review: the color of nasty
A teeth-grindingly, blood-boilingly infuriating cinematic trial that’s like an art school film project gone horribly awry.
The Quiet Ones review: possession obsession
The few outright scares are curiously circumspect, but the old-fashioned Hammer Horror atmosphere is appealingly spooky.
Under the Skin movie review: sex as a weapon
Scarlett Johansson is an alien serial killer who sexes men to death in a misogynist fanboy wet dream that also fails to satisfy as science fiction.
I Am Yours (Jeg er din) review (Birds Eye View Film Festival)
Culture clash amplifies the options open for a young Pakistani-Norwegian woman in this quietly compelling film.
Grand Piano review: not enough notes
Builds up a good momentum of suspense only to throw it away on a rushed, unsatisfying ending, rendering all its preposterousness suddenly unforgivable.
Too Sane for This World review: across the autism spectrum
An enlightening portrait that sheds much needed light on a subculture that could do with some demystifying.
The Double review: now you see him… again
A painfully funny odyssey of personal ineffectualness that is bitterly wonderful in how it revels in the decrepit horror of the everyday world.
Visitors review: stare into the face of humanity
A weirdly beautiful film, eerie in its complicated simplicity, and open to seven billion interpretations, all of them valid.
Tom at the Farm review: shoulda stayed in the city
An overwrought pastiche of Hitchcock that makes less sense and renders its protagonist far less plausible the longer it goes on.
