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Film Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Mary Bronstein Starring Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Christian Slater, ASAP Rocky R 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…
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Film Review: The Secret Agent
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho Starring Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tania Maria, Roberio Diogenes R 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…
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Film Review: Cloud
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama Not Rated 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…
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Film Review: Sentimental Value
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Joachim Trier Starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning R 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…
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Film Review: No Other Choice
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min Not Rated 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…
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Film Review: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara Starring Kikunosuke Toya, Reina Ueda, Fairouz Ai, Tomori Kusunoki R 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…
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Film Review: Frankenstein
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Guillermo del Toro Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz R 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…
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Film Review: The Mastermind
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Kelly Reichardt Starring Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, Bill Camp R 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;…
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Film Review: The History of Sound
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Oliver Hermanus Starring Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Molly Price, Chris Cooper R 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…
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Film Review: My Favourite Cake
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha Starring Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi, Mansoureh Ilkhani, Soraya Orang Not Rated 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…
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