The romantic art-horror film Thelma enchants and ensnares, much like its unusual genre mashup suggests.
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Expansive and Ambitious "Embrace of the Serpent" elicits Hug of the Critic
Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is a masterful and genuine ethnographic exploration of the cultural exchange between white scientists/colonialists and the Indigenous Amazonian peoples.
Film Review: The Past
A triumphant follow-up to his 2011 Oscar-winning film – A Separation – , director Asghar Farhadi’s The Past is a masterfully-performed and emotionally gripping exploration into the intricate nature of our past, along with its inevitable hold on our present.
Film Review: All Is Lost
As the final credits rolled, I felt completely satisfied. The film concludes without falling into any clichés and the ending itself is equal parts dramatic and graceful. All Is Lost is a fantastic look into the despair of a hopeless situation and one mans journey through it.