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Film Review: Anatomy of a Fall
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation A boy returns from a walk with his dog to find his father dead on the ground outside. Blood everywhere. He screams, the mother rushes outside and quickly comforts him. She is distraught and calls 911. It was an accidental fall, no blame to be found here. But something isn’t…
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Film Review: Last Summer
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation If there is anything Catherine Breillant isn’t known for, it’s restraint. The French filmmaker, who has been in the business long enough to be known as old guard at this point, might not even know what the word means frankly, and while debates will rage on whether or not her…
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Film Review: The Beasts
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation A horse to the slaughter is what opens The Beasts. Two brothers wrestle a horse presumably to death, for no other reason then to simply assert dominance. And yet, when we see the horses again, they do not obey, instead content to go their own way and find some kind…
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Film Review: Concrete Utopia
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation I find myself at a crossroads with Concrete Utopia. So much disaster media is focused on the actual end rather then the aftermath or the people that are affected by it that I find myself drawn Concrete Utopia‘s depiction of a post-disaster society immediately enthralling. And to Concrete Utopia‘s credit,…
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Film Review: The Blue Caftan
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation You can tell that Halim is closeted pretty early on. The explicit confirmation you do get after the fact is only really there to help confirm it to you, but eagle viewers will pick up on the small things almost immediately; the way he looks at his apprentice, the sad…
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Film Review: Lead and Copper
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Without doxxing my location, I live close to Flint, Michigan, so the water crisis that was unveiled in 2014 and still somewhat transpires to this day is something that hit close to home in more ways then one. Outside of simply being one of those stories too absurd to believe…
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Film Review: Monster
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Last year, I reviewed the film Broker, a film that I found to be very good if a little undercooked in terms of it’s thematic meat. While Kore-eda is a beloved filmmaker and I don’t doubt his strong reputation among critics, Broker, while definitely worth watching, didn’t leave me wowed…
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Film Review: Evil Does Not Exist
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Once upon a time, there was a village. Evil Does Not Exist takes place in this village, a village that almost seems like it’s from another time period. As the film begins, gazing up at the sky through the barren trees of winter, we see the slow, yet methodical, everyday…
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Film Review: Daliland
By Matthew Moorcroft Screw This Watching Daliland is a bizarre experience, something that on paper should frankly be fitting for a movie that is seemingly about Salvador Dali. After all, the man was notoriously one of the weirdest men alive during his time, so a film that gets weird and out there with it’s content…
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Film Review: About Dry Grasses
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ABOUT DRY GRASSES, MAINLY IN THE THIRD ACT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Some disclosure – the onslaught of reviews that have hit over the past month or so have all been on backlog post-festival, and while I tried to get as many out quickly as…
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