Peter von Kant

In 1970s Cologne, filmmaker Peter von Kant (Denis Ménochet) falls in love with a young North African actor (Khalil Gharbia), but their relationship becomes strained. François Ozon has previous experience…

Wicked: Defying Disbelief

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Photo: Universal As the closing credits started rolling, the teenage girl next to me had to be comforted by her dad. The powerful finale of…

That Christmas

An amiable adaptation of three children’s books by Richard Curtis, introducing us to a lovely little town called Wellington-on-Sea, where everybody’s Christmas plans are about to be interrupted by a…

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever

Thirty years after the capture of a serial killer, the daughter (Fanny Leander-Bornedal) of a student (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who helped expose him follows in her father’s footsteps as the new…

Conclave

After the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) gathers the College for a conclave where conservative and liberal forces clash. An excellent adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel that…

Nutcrackers

Chicagoan Mike Maxwell (Ben Stiller) arrives in rural Ohio to make sure his four unruly and recently orphaned nephews find a new home. After a bunch of horror movies, David…

In a Violent Nature

A novel, low-budget take on the slasher genre in the vein of slow cinema – it’s a minimalist approach, where we follow events mainly from the perspective of the killer,…

Emilia Pérez: Boss in Transition

Selena Gomez. Photo: Netflix In an interview with the New York Times, director Jacques Audiard said that if one were to publish a history of the French musical, it would…

Spellbound

Princess Ellian is about to turn 15, but has her hands full trying to hide from the kingdom the fact that her parents, the King and Queen, have turned into…

The Piano Lesson

Pittsburgh, 1936; Boy Willie Charles (John David Washington) returns to his family’s household where he intends to confront his sister over a piano with a tortured history. An adaptation of…