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Köln 75 review – hammers with propulsive,…

In the opening refrain of Ido Fluk’s Köln 75, music journalist Michael Watts (Michael Chernus) addresses the audience and compares

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A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2

A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2 On Truth & Movies this week, Hannah Strong reports live from the Cannes

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Erupcja review – a witty and tender adventure

In Olivia Laing’s ​’The Lonely City’, they eloquently stated, ​”I wanted very much not to be where I was… the feelings

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Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks

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Power Ballad review – amiable musical comedy…

The name of the film is Power Ballad; the name of its lead character is Rick Power. Is there anything

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Tuner review – woefully off-key

Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);

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Backrooms review – sincerely disturbing and…

Western horror cinema tends to come in waves: 80s slashers, 90s meta-comedies, 2000s torture porn, 2010s found footage, and most

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Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at…

The end of the war does not produce liberation, but merely transforms one unstable political condition into another. The final

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The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides

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The End of It – first-look review

Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona’s feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition