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  • Film Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

    Film Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The bleakly funny and overtly stressful – almost painfully so – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You starts with a flooding, both metaphorically and literally. Literally in that Linda, the at her wit’s end mother and therapist trying to balance having a sick kid, an out of touch husband,…

  • Film Review: The Secret Agent

    Film Review: The Secret Agent

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation I have spent a lot of time mulling over The Secret Agent. Out of all the films I saw at WIFF this year, it’s the one that has most intrigued me from both a technical and analytical perspective. It’s not my first rodeo with Brazilian cinema – far from it…

  • Film Review: Cloud

    Film Review: Cloud

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Kiyoshi Kurosawa really doesn’t like the internet. As far back as the late 90s Kuorsawa has tapped into his own personal fears about what it’s like to live away from people, attached to too much technology and not enough attachment to the people around us. And while he hasn’t really…

  • Film Review: Sentimental Value

    Film Review: Sentimental Value

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Families are complicated. The latest from Joachim Trier, fresh off of international acclaim with the absolutely sublime The Worst Person in the World, directly confronts those complicated families with the level of panache and attunement that we see from him on a regular basis. And what is more complicated then…

  • Film Review: No Other Choice

    Film Review: No Other Choice

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Wired like the best built moustraps just waiting to ensnare you in it’s grasp, No Other Choice is maybe the most Park Chan-wook movie ever made in a long line of Park Chan-wook films. With every trademark here – brief bursts of gory violence, pitch black comedy, and impressively jaw-dropping…

  • Film Review: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

    Film Review: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation There is a moment early on in Reze Arc, the feature length sequel to one of the most popular anime of the past decade, where our lead Denji – fresh off his defeat of one of his toughest foes yet in Katana Man – goes to the movies with his…

  • Film Review: Frankenstein

    Film Review: Frankenstein

    By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation At this point, it’s easy to call every single Guillermo del Toro film a passion project. If there is one thing consistent about him as a filmmaker, it’s that his personal interests and what kinds of films he wants to make intertwine so seamlessly that you can almost predict what…

  • Film Review: The Mastermind

    Film Review: The Mastermind

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation A heist film is not exactly the thing you would expect from Kelly Reichardt on first glance. The slow cinema auteur known for her meticulously and lesiurely paced stories is, on paper, the anti-crime movie filmmaker; not nearly energetic enough to allow for the high intensity needed for a film…

  • Film Review: The History of Sound

    Film Review: The History of Sound

    By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation For a movie about the notions of sound and how it surrounds us almost constantly, The History of Sound is achingly quiet. Nobody really speaks above a whisper, and when they do it’s less about the things they do say and the things that they don’t. It makes sense though,…

  • Film Review: My Favourite Cake

    Film Review: My Favourite Cake

    By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Political art is not always flashy. Normally when people think of it it’s through the banner of protests or government buildings or actively discussing political figures or regimes. There is a tendency then to view said political art as a very specific kind of feature, but that could not be…