Off Track

In a moment of weakness, eternal screw-up Lisa (Katia Winter) tells her daughter that she intends to compete in Vasaloppet, a 56-mile ski race; now she has to get in…

Worst Person in the World: Millennial Angst

Renate Reinsve. Photo: Oslo Pictures As Joachim Trier was making his final chapter in a trilogy of films that began with Reprise (2006) and continued with Oslo, August 31st (2011),…

Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

Hiroshima Mon Amour: Prisoners of War

Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada. Photo: Argos Films Another one of those classics that I wasn’t quite prepared for when I was studying film, but which had a much more…

Pretty Woman

Depressed corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) hooks up with a Hollywood Boulevard prostitute (Julia Roberts) and realizes she’s a human being. An enormous box-office hit at the time, this…

Happiest Season 

Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is spending Christmas together with her family and her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart)… but on the journey home she tells Abby that she hasn’t come out to…

Muriel’s Wedding 

Muriel (Toni Collette), a bullied, ABBA-loving young woman in a small town, steal $12,000 to join her ”friends” on an island vacation. The director’s feature film debut was an international…

Bridget Jones’s Baby 

Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger), 43, suddenly finds herself pregnant, but who’s the father – her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), an American billionaire and inventor?…

The English Patient: Memories of Love

Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. Photo: Miramax Some people will always think of this film as the one that stole the Best Picture Oscar from Fargo. Fair enough, the…

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby

As Queen Amber (Rose McIver) and the whole of Aldovia are eagerly awaiting the birth of her child, the royal family faces a crisis involving a neighboring monarchy. The third…