Tim Burton’s recent feature films haven’t quite hit his usual mark. While the series Wednesday achieved success, his work has been more miss than hit lately. With the announcement of the long-awaited sequel to Beetlejuice, […]

The Lie said to The Truth: “Let’s take a bath together; the well water is very nice.”The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found it indeed pleasant. So, they both got naked and bathed.But […]

The reunion of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and director Robert Zemeckis has given us Here, a film that could easily be billed as a spiritual sequel to Forrest Gump. However, my expectations were tempered; Zemeckis’s […]

The Substance (2024) is a film that arrives shrouded in the promise of “smart horror,” marketed as a psychologically intense thriller with profound themes and a refined aesthetic. At first glance, the movie seems to […]

Sector 36 is such a close thing to brilliance, yet its writing cannot make it the case. The movie has all going for it: a great source material, competent direction, revealing a good sense of […]

“My dear children, there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. If a person carries many […]

There’s a fine line between a great decision and a missed opportunity. We can never know what could have been, but I will say that the exchange between Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg in the […]

This week, I was lucky enough to attend the Cambridge Film Festival. Among the wide variety of shorts and features chosen for the event, by far the largest-scale attraction was Anora, a major contender for […]

Dunkirk is an evacuation of sustained terror. It is a horror sequence, a suspense sequence, and a battle sequence all in one. It is unlike any other World War II film, with a structure distinct […]

Devara is a mixed bag of emotions, making the audience soar to great heights only to be dragged down into mediocrity. I’ve never been fond of dividing a film into neat categories like first half […]