La Cocina uses its kitchen-setting as a springboard for a grand Statement on America. But it ruins the main dish by adding too many flavours.
Too Many Cooks Spoil La Cocina
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
A Different Man, Sort Of
A Different Man has all the snarky hallmarks of another A24 provocation, but it’s saved by a screenplay that somehow evokes the best of Woody Allen.
Into the Panorama-Verse
The Panorama section of the Berlinale probes the limits of human sexuality, violence and capacity for connection. Here’s our master list of Panorama reviews.
Small Things Like These. Faux Terence Davies
Small Things Like These may highlight a vital decades-long human rights abuse but is sadly let down by its derivative imitation of Terence Davies’ best work.
Love to Love Me Baby
Sam & Andy Zuchero’s unconventional love story, Love Me, is buoyed by two excellent performances from Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun.
The Frantic Love Lies Bleeding Puts the Vibes First
Rose Glass’ sophomore effort, Love Lies Bleeding, is unconcerned with likeability. Here’s why that’s a good thing, live from Sundance.
Enter the Realm of Satan, Slow Cinema Style
Editor-turned-director Scott Cummings eschews conventional cutting in his slow, unjudgemental look at the Satanic church in Realm of Satan.
Sisterhood Prevails Amongst 78 Days of NATO Bombs
78 Days by Emilija Gašić uses a documentary, found-footage approach to depict the trials of girlhood growing pains in the midst of NATO bombings.
The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire Rejects Conventionality in Favour of Archival Speculation
Madelaine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire mounts a corrective to the surrealist’s occluded legacy through a personal essayistic structure.
The Light Provides a Fleet Danish History Lesson about the Lingering Complications of Nazi Occupation
Alexander Lind’s The Light investigates an incendiary art project that used bunkers as a metaphor for Danish collaboration during the Nazi occupation, live from Rotterdam.