Japan Cuts 2019: RED SNOW Review
Weighed down by a poorly handled mystery plot, Red Snow is an airless exploration of repressed trauma and past guilt that is just too dour to follow.
Weighed down by a poorly handled mystery plot, Red Snow is an airless exploration of repressed trauma and past guilt that is just too dour to follow.
And Your Bird Can Sing is a subtle meditation on bacchanal self-destruction that mines unspoken moments for unexpected impact.
As a chilling portrait of a city in turmoil and a boisterous tribute to its struggling residents, The Kamagasaki Cauldron War is the comedy for the proletariat told with invigorating realism.
Maggie is a puzzling oddity whose creative aimlessness endears itself to its head-scratching audience.
#NYAFF Review: Deftly tapping into a common Millennial anxiety, 5 MILLION DOLLAR LIFE is a sardonic, existential exploration of one's value in society.
A fresh take on the tired zombie formula, played with enjoyable farcicality by a standout cast, makes The Odd Family: Zombie for Sale an absurdist delight.
By exploring the small overlaps between, and coincidences among, the stories of complete strangers, Jam fails to become as good as the sum of its parts.
Full of gratuitous eye candy, White Snake is a derivative exercise that wrongly believes overloading itself with style and action can sustain yet another take on the ancient Chinese legend.
Violence Voyager remains a disturbing bait and switch of gory delights for all who can stomach it.
While trying to sell you on the maverick, anarchist sensibilities of its central subjects, Dare to Stop Us slots itself into standardized yet serviceable biopic formula.
Not even the inclusion of a robot could invigorate the stale, self-pitying lowlife comedy, HARD-CORE, into anything endearing.
Ghost Light squanders what goodwill its cast builds up on a confused deluge of lackluster plots.
Plus One finds the heart and hilarity in taking on the chaotic onslaught of wedding season with cringey glee.
Extracurricular Activities is an intriguing premise that is completely let down by the bland, tonal failure of the film’s execution.
Charlie Says is a formulaic biopic of Manson's followers whose execution borders on the irresponsible.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a mouthful of a title for a surprisingly vacuous biopic that never gives decent grounds for its existence.
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