A girl is forced to dress like a boy in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan to help her family make ends meet in this splendidly animated tale that perhaps relies too much on a parallel account of a mythical fantasy to work.
The best animated film of 2020, Tomm Moore’s enthralling third feature is a masterful folkloric take on heroes and villains, humans and beasts, and the courage to change perceptions.
An ethereal animated feature if there ever was one, Irish filmmaker Tomm Moore’s wondrous follow-up to The Secret of Kells is an antidote to the fast and furious world of Hollywood animation.
Tomm Moore’s debut feature is a visual feast that evokes a sense of wonderment even if it may be narratively slight.
Strong performances by Glenn Close and Mia Wasikowska help to elevate this heartfelt Oscar-baiting period film to something that is worth a watch.
By turns visually ravishing and psychologically perverse, this salacious and morbidly hilarious period drama strangely doesn’t quite amount to anything significant.
Continue reading →Absurdist cinema taken to the extreme, Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a harrowing work that is clinical in execution in more ways than one.
Bizarre is the word from the latest by Lanthimos, whose uneven English-language debut intrigues and wanes in what is a morbid if deadpan comedy about loneliness and companionship.
Steve McQueen’s Cannes Camera d’Or-winning debut feature is powerful and astonishing.
Eternality Tan 