Lore (review)
Hints at a new mythology of darkness and light, of scary childhood and even scarier adolescence…
Hints at a new mythology of darkness and light, of scary childhood and even scarier adolescence…

An enraging film, as it is meant to be, and not just because it is a military microcosm of rape culture at large.

A horrific portrait of everyday life on the West Bank, yet one also powerfully warm, funny, and human…

Contents itself with the mildest of tweaks at both the zombie and the romantic-comedy genres… (new on DVD/VOD in the US and Canada)

If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.

There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage…
I was literally in tears for parts of Argo, a purely physical reaction, not an emotional one, to deal with the tension. The only other option would have been to moan out loud, the film is almost that unbearably nerve-wracking.
Even the marvelous performances by Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough are not enough to ratchet up the drama to the level of the totally gripping, which is a damn shame and something of a puzzler…

Timur Bekmambetov treats his pile-on of pulpy historical pseudo revisionism sincerely, but cheerfully so: its subversively gentle sense of humor is never so earnest that it stumbles over into cheese.
Would really really like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so.