A trip to a trauma retreat turns increasingly nightmarish in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s Honey Bunch, playing in Berlinale Special.
Never Trust Guys Called Homer
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Snowgirls
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower is a forbidding and slow riff on Hans Christian Andersen with a movie star performance from Marion Cotillard.
Mickey 17 Dials It Past 11
Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 is a loud and brash cartoonish science-fiction that has very little to say underneath its deafening bluster.
Wolf Man. Toxic Lycanthropy.
Universal Remake their classic horror movie The Wolf Man to diminishing returns in Leigh Whannell’s weak follow-up to The Invisible Man.
No Mercy, or We Need More Fog Machines
The 1986 Richard Gere star vehicle No Mercy shows that all a movie needs is a girl and a gun. And lots of fog machines.
There, There. A Tender Depiction of Care.
With a documentary-like aesthetic and profound use of the mundane, Heather Young’s sophomore film There, There reasserts her singular voice.
The Other One Explores the Glass Children Phenomenon
Marie-Magdalena Kochová’s debut feature acutely captures the Glass Children phenomenon: being overshadowed by your sibling with more complex needs.
Losing It at The Opera!
An EU-funded cousin of Megalopolis, The Opera! is a baffling and bad film that astounds with its incredibly basic classical music choices.
Chasing Pavements
Pavements is a biopic, musical and exhibition, with Alex Ross Perry applying the idiosyncratic spirit of the 90s band to novel forms of cinematic expression.
Aye, There’s The Cherub
A fat straight man finds a new lease of life when he sends his self-portrait into a gay magazine in Devin Shears’ touching debut Cherub.