Category: Bite Size Reviews

Loosely based on director Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother, this dual-timeline period piece has two fantastic performances but little interest in probing its subject.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s still, quietly beautiful meditation on childhood creativity, dreams, and friendship is one of the year’s most moving films.

If you’re new to independent filmmaker Louise Weard’s Castration Movie Anthology, this is actually a great place to start.

Andrew Haigh’s new film manages to look gorgeous while showing little interest in solving the mystery it sets in motion.

Not quite a pure erotic thriller, writer-director Corrin Evans’ blend of sensuality and sexual tension constantly treads the line between uncomfortable and hot as hell.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest story about the peculiar business of being human is in many ways the anti-algorithm: slow, tender, and forgiving.

Remastered and released for the first time in Japanese, Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s anime adventure is a bonkers trip with pristine animation and elevated gothic-romance tone.

The film’s most striking feature, aside from Sandra Hüller’s immersive performance, is the gritty black-and-white photography capturing the brutal nihilism only German-Austrian cinema can provide.

Set in a Kinnar community, a legally recognized third gender in Nepal, Abinash Bikram Shah’s film follows the matriarch of a house of trans women with nowhere else to go.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s return to postwar Germany isn’t as immediately gripping as his previous films, but it has its own emotional devastation.

Lee Chang-dong’s follow-up to ‘Burning’ explores the complexities of life after the one-percent already won.

This is my first experience with Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s films, but I’m excited to explore their cinematic world further once I’ve emotionally recovered.

Jordan Firstman writes, directs, and stars in this authentic, exquisitely shot portrait of queer nightlife and sudden fatherhood.

In Tony Gilroy’s ‘Michael Clayton’ follow-up, Pedro Pascal plays a cellist just going about his life on the way to an emotional gut-punch of an ending.

Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch origin story is no stuffy period piece, but an entertaining and often horrifying look at how modern media went wrong.

James Benning’s new minimalist documentary is a simple series of 10-minute shots of bridges. It’s worth the trip.