FILM REVIEWS
As a film critic, I am invited to attend and write from festivals across and outside Europe - including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Berlin, New York, Tallinn, Lisbon, Cartagena, Odessa, Cluj, and more.
Below is a selection of the reviews I've filed amid screenings-packed schedules, various colds, and festival-induced hunger. To your left, the critics of the 2019 Berlinale Talents in all their sleep-deprived, stoic splendour.
MUBI
Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story"
Robert Eggers' "The Lighthouse"
Pedro Almodóvar’s "Pain and Glory"
Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria"
Brady Corbet's "Vox Lux"
Patrick Wang's "A Bread Factory - Part One and Two"
Karim Aïnouz's "Central Airport THF"
Carlos Reygadas' "Our Time"
Sebastián Lelio's "A Fantastic Woman"
Garin Nugroho's "Memories of My Body"
Rick Alverson's "The Mountain"
The Film Stage
Sung-A Yoon's "Overseas"
Maya Da-Rin's "The Fever"
Koji Fukada's "A Girl Missing"
Simon Bird's "Days of the Bagnold Summer"
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "To the Ends of the Earth"
Truong Minh Quý’s "The Tree House"
Rúnar Rúnarsson's "Echo"
Patrick Vollrath's "7500"
Mati Diop's "Atlantics"
Bruno Dumont's "Joan of Arc"
Karim Ainouz's "The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao"
Xavier Dolan's "Matthias & Maxime"
Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"
Terrence Malick's "A Hidden Life"
Christopher Makoto Yogi's "August at Akiko's"
Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die"
Denis Côté's "Ghost Town Anthology"
Claudio Giovannesi's "Piranhas"
Carlos Marqués-Marcet's "The Days to Come"
Zhu Shengze's "Present.Perfect."
Brian Welsh's "Beats"
Ena Sendijarević's "Take Me Somewhere Nice"
Aaron Schimberg's "Chained for Life"
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's "Manta Ray"
Jang Woo-Jin's "Winter's Night"
Rubén Mendoza's "Niña Errante"
Henning Gronkowski's "Yung"
Orson Welles' "The Other Side of the Wind"
Zhang Yimou's "Shadow"
Olivier Assayas' "Non-fiction"
Jennifer Kent's "The Nightingale"
S. Craig Zahler's "Dragged Across Concrete"
Julian Schnabel's "At Eternity's Gate"
Bradley Cooper's "A Star is Born"
Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite"
Damien Chazelle's "First Man"
Mariano Llinás' "La Flor"
Hong Sang-soo's "Hotel by the River"
Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti's "Sibel"
Yolande Zauberman's "M"
Dominga Sotomayor's "Too Late to Die Young"
Affonso Uchoa and João Duman's "Araby"
Carla Simón's "Summer 1993"
Jean-Paul Civeyrac's "A Paris Education"
Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas' "Good Manners"
Sadaf Faroughi's "Ava"
Ana Urushadze's "Scary Mother"
Ilian Metev's "3/4"
Stephen Loveridge's "Matangi, Maya, M.I.A."
Kinoscope
Disarming Manhood, Raising Men: Toxic Masculinities in "Monos" and "Piranhas"
On Society's Margins: Sean Baker's "The Florida Project"
Hunched Bodies, Fragile Selves: Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats"
A tragedy of two worlds: on Nelson Carlo de los Santos' "Cocote"
Eastern Promises: Gjorce Stavreski's "Secret Ingredient"
CineVue
Richard Linklater's "Last Flag Flying"
As a film critic, I am invited to attend and write from festivals across and outside Europe - including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Berlin, New York, Tallinn, Lisbon, Cartagena, Odessa, Cluj, and more.
Below is a selection of the reviews I've filed amid screenings-packed schedules, various colds, and festival-induced hunger. To your left, the critics of the 2019 Berlinale Talents in all their sleep-deprived, stoic splendour.
MUBI
Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story"
Robert Eggers' "The Lighthouse"
Pedro Almodóvar’s "Pain and Glory"
Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria"
Brady Corbet's "Vox Lux"
Patrick Wang's "A Bread Factory - Part One and Two"
Karim Aïnouz's "Central Airport THF"
Carlos Reygadas' "Our Time"
Sebastián Lelio's "A Fantastic Woman"
Garin Nugroho's "Memories of My Body"
Rick Alverson's "The Mountain"
The Film Stage
Sung-A Yoon's "Overseas"
Maya Da-Rin's "The Fever"
Koji Fukada's "A Girl Missing"
Simon Bird's "Days of the Bagnold Summer"
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "To the Ends of the Earth"
Truong Minh Quý’s "The Tree House"
Rúnar Rúnarsson's "Echo"
Patrick Vollrath's "7500"
Mati Diop's "Atlantics"
Bruno Dumont's "Joan of Arc"
Karim Ainouz's "The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao"
Xavier Dolan's "Matthias & Maxime"
Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"
Terrence Malick's "A Hidden Life"
Christopher Makoto Yogi's "August at Akiko's"
Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die"
Denis Côté's "Ghost Town Anthology"
Claudio Giovannesi's "Piranhas"
Carlos Marqués-Marcet's "The Days to Come"
Zhu Shengze's "Present.Perfect."
Brian Welsh's "Beats"
Ena Sendijarević's "Take Me Somewhere Nice"
Aaron Schimberg's "Chained for Life"
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's "Manta Ray"
Jang Woo-Jin's "Winter's Night"
Rubén Mendoza's "Niña Errante"
Henning Gronkowski's "Yung"
Orson Welles' "The Other Side of the Wind"
Zhang Yimou's "Shadow"
Olivier Assayas' "Non-fiction"
Jennifer Kent's "The Nightingale"
S. Craig Zahler's "Dragged Across Concrete"
Julian Schnabel's "At Eternity's Gate"
Bradley Cooper's "A Star is Born"
Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite"
Damien Chazelle's "First Man"
Mariano Llinás' "La Flor"
Hong Sang-soo's "Hotel by the River"
Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti's "Sibel"
Yolande Zauberman's "M"
Dominga Sotomayor's "Too Late to Die Young"
Affonso Uchoa and João Duman's "Araby"
Carla Simón's "Summer 1993"
Jean-Paul Civeyrac's "A Paris Education"
Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas' "Good Manners"
Sadaf Faroughi's "Ava"
Ana Urushadze's "Scary Mother"
Ilian Metev's "3/4"
Stephen Loveridge's "Matangi, Maya, M.I.A."
Kinoscope
Disarming Manhood, Raising Men: Toxic Masculinities in "Monos" and "Piranhas"
On Society's Margins: Sean Baker's "The Florida Project"
Hunched Bodies, Fragile Selves: Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats"
A tragedy of two worlds: on Nelson Carlo de los Santos' "Cocote"
Eastern Promises: Gjorce Stavreski's "Secret Ingredient"
CineVue
Richard Linklater's "Last Flag Flying"