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Film Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons R A near 10 year in the making picture, Killers of the Flower Moon represents the third in a trilogy of late period Martin Scorsese projects that are mainly passion affairs. It started with his faith…
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Film Review: The Zone of Interest
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Jonathan Glazer Starring Christian Friedel, Sandra Huller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte PG-13 When discussing historical tragedies in film, there is an inevitable urge to frame the action as some sort of humanitarian service; a documentation for future generations to perceive maybe not the full horror but just…
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Film Review: The Night of the 12th
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Dominik Moll Starring Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Theo Cholbi, Anouk Grinberg Not Rated From it’s opening title card, you know how The Night of the 12th is going to end. It doesn’t try to hide it at any point either, making it clear that what you are witnessing…
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Film Review: The Beast
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Bertrand Bonello Starring Lea Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova Not Rated The Beast is confounding. Not even in just the traditional sense of being difficult to decipher – any film that opens up with a green screen recreation of a scene from it’s own third act…
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Film Review: Robot Dreams
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Pablo Berger Not Rated A story of friendship is, on paper, the surface level idea on display in Robot Dreams, the animation debut of Spanish director Pablo Berger. Told with nary a single line of dialogue, Robot Dreams is immediately charming through simplicity in a way not a…
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Film Review: Anatomy of a Fall
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Justine Triet Starring Sandra Huller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz R 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…
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Film Review: Last Summer
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Catherine Breillant Starring Lea Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Samuel Kircher, Clotide Courau Not Rated 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…
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Film Review: The Beasts
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen Starring Denis Menochet, Marina Fois, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido Not Rated 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,…
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Film Review: Concrete Utopia
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Um Tae-hwa Starring Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-joon, Park Bo-young, Kim Sun-young Not Rated 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…
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Film Review: The Blue Caftan
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Maryam Touzani Starring Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui, Zakaria Atifi Not Rated 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…
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