7 July 2020
It is a rare film that makes me want to turn around and straight away watch it again.
23 June 2020
An introverted and ambiguous adventure, it stimulates while it lasts but fails to wind up anywhere very particular.
10 June 2020
From robots to the rise of China, and fast food to feminism – each episode offers a visually stimulating fast-forward summary of social and scientific developments that have shaped the world as we know it.
27 May 2020
Simultaneously ruthlessly distanced and heartfelt, the series serves up a refreshing validation of conflicting emotions in the wake of sudden, life-altering loss.
13 May 2020
Each loosely interrelated episode sparks just enough intellectual curiosity to prompt perennial questions on ephemerality, the impact of technology, and human vulnerability.
29 April 2020
A pleasantly quirky, sympathetic portrait of two friends, as one, a terminal cancer patient, seeks assisted suicide.
15 April 2020
An unpretentiously tragic tale, Tigertail offers a slow but effective meditation upon the life-derailing power of profoundly misguided priorities.
31 March 2020
With masterful restraint and human sensitivity, its sheer quality speaks for itself.
2 March 2020
This year’s Academy Award winner for best documentary feature, American Factory (now on Netflix), chronicles the ups and down of a Chinese industrial facility recently opened in the midwestern city of Dayton, Ohio. Offering
18 February 2020
With the Academy Awards behind us, cinematic slump season is upon us. Rather than review one of the B-reel releases specially reserved for the week after many who’s whos stop watching, let’s amble through