“1917”, Sam Mendes
Film review: 1917 / Director: Sam Mendes / Released: 2019
1917 is one of those rare films that appear every once
in a while, to remind...
Cemetery of Splendour
Title: Cemetery of Splendour
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Released: 2015
Well, this film is impressive in its ability to seem completely unimpressive, as is the case with most...
Green Book, Peter Farrelly
Film Review. Title: Green Book / Director: Peter Farrelly / Released: 2018
looking at the nominations for the Best Picture Oscar one cannot ignore...
Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho
Film review – Title: Parasite / Director: Bong Joon-Ho / Released: 2019
There seems to be something fundamentally odd with the decisions of major...
P. T. Anderson, “Phantom Thread”
Title: Phantom Thread
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Released: 2018
Film Review: Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson at his most emotional.
Within minutes of witnessing Daniel Day-Lewis’ acting in the...
Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Approximately 400 thousand British, Belgian, Dutch and French soldiers were trapped in Dunkirk in May 1940. In this film we are witnessing the rescuing...
Joker, Todd Phillips
Film review - Title: Joker / Director: Todd Phillips / Released: 2019
“When Dalí and Buñuel made “L’Âge d’Or” (1930), they wanted to start a riot, and...
Ari Aster, “Hereditary”
Title: Heredirary
Director: Ari Aster
Release date: 2018
So much has already been written about Hereditary: for some, it’s the new Exorcist, for others it’s a combination...
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos
As a dramatic comedy the film achieves its goal. This surely is Lanthimos’s most mature work to date.
Toni Erdmann
Instead of an ordinary review for this special film, I've decided to write just an outline to name the different reasons that make Toni Erdmann stand out as one of the best (if not the best) films of the year.
