With such a mediocre thriller script, this would have been an average outing for Jeethu Joseph under any other circumstance.
Bayaar is an austere and haunting meditation on guilt, memory and spiritual reckoning that confronts the uneasy weight of self-judgment with quiet conviction.
In the end, Patriot is a film with ambition but little control.
Thanks to Midhun’s unnecessary flourish, it ends up feeling like an unfinished film when it definitely deserved a better ending.
Set against the procedural urgency of the adults who surround her, a little girl’s search for reassurance becomes an ordeal in itself.
Óliver Laxe’s directorial control denies comfort and bends both characters and viewers to ordeals that feel less staged than inescapable.
Calorie may not have the tidiest structure or the sharpest dialogue, but its emotional integrity is unmistakable.
Secret of a Mountain Serpent shapes a layered experiential universe, evocative in mood and detail, and offers a richly imagined exploration of desire and displacement.
No Other Choice is a well acted, hilarious effort from Park Chan-wook that provides exploration of unemployment and capitalism alongside its laughs.
Kantara: Chapter 1 does not carry the same emotional force as its predecessor, offering grandeur where intimacy is missed.