6.5
There is an enthralling line of dark-web, creepypasta intrigue running through Jacob Gentry’s Broadcast Signal Intrusion. which starts his sleek conspiracy thriller off on some strong footing. Set in the late ’90s, when the broadcast airwaves were unruly and full of potential
7.5
It is the film’s personal, maternal angle that makes I Am A Cliché anything but.
7
In the economically bizarre world we live in – where the sizable population of the super-ultra rich could collectively cure world hunger multiple times over but have just decided not to – we have been programmed to view the very idea of
7
Fires on the Plain sees Tsukamoto apply his signature style to a classic of Japanese cinema.
8
The Actor is a witty and kind-hearted look at the acting industry from the perspective of a career sideliner.
5.5
The wonted familial deceit that props up Lying to Mom belies the uneven and bloated melodrama of its plot.
10
A manic meta-comedy of immense proportions, Red Post on Escher Street pokes fun at the chaos of film production with equal parts absurdity and empathy.
7
The laid-back approach in Mori, the Artist’s Habitat works well for such a terminally breezy subject.
9
Night of the Kings deftly celebrates the power of storytelling and myth-making when one’s freedoms are limited.
5.5
Sean Ellis’ 19th-century werewolf horror film lacks the substance and the follow-through to be memorable.
8
Prisoners of the Ghostland sees the eccentric Sion Sono embrace the midnight-movie mode and his exaggerated reputation to make one of his strangest features.
6
The Night is a slick — but ideologically empty — time-loop horror that drags on like its creepy premise.
As our 2020 wrap-up kicks into gear, Chris couldn’t sit idly by and allow only ten of the best films this year get recognition so he decided to highlight 30 of his top titles.
8
The assassination of former heir apparent to the role of Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-nam is probably the only time in the history of the world where the legal defense can be summaraized as, “It was just a prank, bro.”
7
The crime odyssey of Glen Summerford in the fall of 1991 is one of those “stranger than fiction” cases that accordingly has risen to the esteem of modern-day folklore in the Appalachians, where it had occurred.
Marred by uncertainties and spread through
8
76 Days is almost impossible to watch in these times. Which is what makes it so vital.
