Category: Mini Review
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Mini Review: Possible Love
Lee Chang-Dong succeeds in delivering something deeply contemplative & reflective in Possible Love, despite treading on familiar themes. And the cast is absolutely excellent. But for me there wasn’t quite enough to sink my teeth into, and I found myself left wanting more. 3.5/5
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Mini Review: Misty Green
There are elements in Chris Rock’s Misty Green that work, particularly in Rosalind Eleazar’s revelation of a performance. But the film seems too preoccupied with too many ideas and characters, and the bouncing back and forth does none of them justice. 2.5/5
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Mini Review: Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Why won’t Kimchi Jesus let Blade feed his baby? In all honesty, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother surprised me. A thoroughly astonishing action film, that’s sleek, deeply tragic & beautifully shot. Mahershala Ali fills the screen with nuanced gravitas. Consider me impressed. 4/5
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Mini Review: Fjord
Palme D’Or winner Fjord really does live up to the hype, with its powerhouse cast & deeply thought-provoking script that flips the narrative in such an interesting way. The film succeeds in challenging perspective & bias, and the result is as beautiful as the film’s Nordic setting. 4/5
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Mini Review: Wildwood
There’s something truly incredible about the artistry behind Wildwood, and witnessing stop motion done at such a grand scale. While narratively it doesn’t quite reach perfection, needing to build an entire world in just over two hours, you can’t deny it’s a visual masterpiece. 4.5/5
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Mini Review: You Can See Everything
You Can See Everything is unlike any doc you’ve ever seen, & fully invites you to dissect it in every way possible. What unfolds feels so heightened that it almost feels unreal. And while its main subject is so captivating, when is the doc about making the doc coming out? 4.5/5
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Mini Review: You, Me & Tuscany
You, Me & Tuscany is the closest we’ve gotten in a while to a modern day fairy tale, down to its whimsically improbable plot and inevitable happy ending. It’s pure fantasy, but at the end of the day who doesn’t love watching beautiful people fall in love in beautiful places. 2/5
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Mini Review: The Breadwinner
Nate Bartgatze’s turn as a leading comedic man in The Breadwinner is very what you see is what you get, with a deep supporting cast that largely play one note caricatures. Its family friendly, and dopey. But as far as comedy goes, it’s not even remotely insightful or memorable. 1/5
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Mini Review: In the Grey
Cavill & Gyllenhaal lead a team of overly capable mercenaries in Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey, that forces it’s one female (and essentially main) character, played by Eiza Gonzalez, to be “flawed” in order to add stakes. Beyond it’s cast, there’s not much memorable in this one.
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Mini Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is the good kind of Black Mirror episode, that’s hauntingly insightful but with the right amount of chaos, balanced with some fun humour, & with a cast that elevates their roles. All of which is made even more impressive knowing its tight budget. 3.5/5
