Claire White talks to Desiree Akhavan about The Miseducation of Cameron Post, intimacy in filmmaking, and how being true to your voice can pay off.
Read more
Review: The Active Listening of ‘In My Blood It Runs’
Maya Newell’s sublime observational documentary lends an ear to Indigenous youth struggling in the Western school system.
Read more
Sketch & Study: ‘Uncut Gems’
The last thing you should try to do when watching the Sadfies’ latest film is surface for air.
Read more
Corona Kino: How 12 Directors are Probably Going to Respond to COVID-19
Please enjoy our very 2020 David Cronenberg fanfiction xo
Read more
Review: Step Back in Time with ‘La Belle Epoque”s Misplaced Nostalgia Trip
Lauren Ironmonger musters up little more enthusiasm than ‘ok boomer’ for this French rom-com.
Read more
Cinemascopes: Pisces
A time of heightened sensitivity, mystical intuition, and death.
Read more
Review: How ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ Went Wrong
Dee Rees’ highly-anticipated Joan Didion adaptation frustrates through what it chooses to keep, ignore, and change from the source novel.
Read more
You Tried: Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker’
Is it just me, or are things getting crazier out there this awards season?
Read more
Review: The Divine Anguish of ‘Saint Maud’
Though fitting neatly into A24’s horror brand, Rose Glass’ debut feature takes the guiding principle – that pain should never be wasted – to harrowing extremes, striking a personal chord.
Read more
Review: ‘Suicide Tourist’ is Chillingly Shallow
This weak-kneed thriller revolves around one of the most infuriating reality versus fantasy mysteries in recent memory.
Read more
Review: The Daunting Loneliness of ‘Away’
Gints Zilablodis’ animation parable follows a young boy who runs from a physical and metaphorical darkness.
Read more
Review: ‘S He’ is a blistering commentary on systemic sexism
Nothing is left unscathed in Shengwei Zhou’s debut stop-motion animation.
Read more
Hail ‘Sator’, a Cabin-in-the-Woods Horror Flick Made From One Filmmaker’s Blood, Sweat, and Tears
While effectively ‘nerve-shredding’, Jordan Graham’s painstaking effort is too similar to other arthouse horror movies released during its five years of production.
Read more
The Cyber-Chaos of ‘0s & 1s’
Eugene Kotlyarenko’s proto-desktop film details life on the precipice of total internet poisoning.
Read more
Stuck Between Presence & Absence: ‘Demonlover’ and ‘Mating’
Two films from Static Vision’s Hyperlinks Film Festival explore the type of connections that flow from relational forcefields both online and IRL.
Read more
Review: Destabilised Representation in ‘Searching Eva’
Director Pia Hellenthal has provided her subject the opportunity to engage in a unique form of on-screen introspection — but it’s an approach that yields limited insight.
Read more
Cinemascopes: Aquarius
Trip out, detach (with intention), and change the world.
Read more
Review: ‘L.A. Tea Time’ Soaks up Life like a Sponge
A pair’s road trip to meet filmmaking hero, Miranda July, turns into a dreamy journey of observation and self-discovery.
Read more
Review: ‘AIDOL’ is the spawn-point of a new cinematic age, for better or worse
Part machinima, part musical; Lawrence Lek synthesises together something totally original.
Read more
Those Grey Men in ‘Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window’
A winding trip through Hong Kong’s art world digs at the cryptic muddle of art.
Read more
Review: Travel Deconstructed in ‘Tourism’
Daisuke Miyazaki questions the merit of travel as two Japanese micro-influencers document their vacation to Southeast Asia.
Read more
Review: The Beautiful World of ‘Emma.’
Autumn de Wilde’s Austen adaptation is a female fantasy, and it’s all the more better for it.
Read more
Review: Going Downriver with ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’, a Lyrical Ode to Friendship
Sophie Gibson reflects on the fascinating, frustrating story of time and place hidden in this indie dramedy.
Read more
‘The Lighthouse’ in Three Parts
Isolation, repression, two bodies, and a lingering stench.
Read more
The Unexceptional Hero in ‘A Hidden Life’
Terrence Malick’s latest opus brings to the fore the unconventional heroism of ordinary people.
Read more
Tactile Affects in ‘J’ai Perdu Mon Corps’ (‘I Lost My Body’)
After watching Jeremy Clapin’s new film in a Parisian theatre, Lauren Ironmonger reflects on the incorporeal power of touch.
Read more
‘Little Women’, ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, and the Significance of Materiality
Indigo Bailey admires Céline Sciamma and Greta Gerwig’s visions of female artistry – of something tangible, intimate, and real.
Read more
Review: ‘Underwater’ is a theme park movie par excellence
The Kristen Stewart deep-sea disaster movie is a comforting B-movie indulgence.
Read more
Review: ‘Like A Boss’ Accidentally Argues For Its Own Irrelevance
There’s definitely a story to be told about struggling small businesses relying on charity from billionaires to succeed in an increasingly stratified financial class system, but Like A Boss isn’t interested in telling it.
Read more
What Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Tells Us About Film In 2019
Elroy Rosenberg spotlights Scorsese’s creative ambition in the midst of 2019’s slick, focus-group filmmaking.
Read more
Review: The Quiet Wisdom of ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’
Tom Hanks gives a miraculous performance as Fred Rogers. Unfortunately, he’s not the main character.
Read more
You Tried: Richard E. Grant in ‘Spice World’
Grant’s highly-strung manager nearly turns a 90s cinematic wannabe into girl group gold.
Read more
Review: The Blindingly White Feminism of ‘Bombshell’
This exposé on the ruthless power dynamics of Fox News has surprisingly little to say about the media corporation itself, let alone its complex real-life protagonists.
Read more
Cinemascopes: Capricorn
These glamorous GOATs are already married – to their work.
Read more
Star Wars Should’ve Let the Past Die
Madeleine McRae interrogates blockbuster filmmaking through the legacy of Star Wars and reckons with its Disneyfied future.
Read more
Let’s Fix ‘Cats’!
Eliza Janssen knows how to make 2019’s biggest critical failure less of a cat-astrophe.
Read more
Rough Cut’s Best of the Decade (2010-2019)
To mark the end of the decade, the Rough Cut crew reveal their favourite films of the 2010s.
Read more
Paris Window: An Interview with Amanda Kramer
Ivana Brehas reunites with Amanda Kramer to discuss the release of her film Paris Window.
Read more
Pedro Almodóvar and Quentin Tarantino: A Tale of Two Directors
Bina Bhattacharya reflects on two of her favourite directors’ latest films, and finds unlikely parallels between their filmmaking styles.
Read more
Review: Doctor Sleep
Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation is kinder and less focused than the Kubrick film it cribs from.
Read more
Yesterday Is Gone: Sondheim in ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘Lady Bird’
The music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim mean something to both Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig – Claire White figures it out.
Read more
Cinemascopes: Sagittarius
They’re breathtaking, they’re elegant, and they’re everywhere.
Read more
Review: Seven and a Half
This tapestry display of individual lives highlights the disparate gender inequality in Iran, but falls victim to its otherwise dry thematic explorations.
Read more
Review: Reza
There’s an empty quality to this otherwise impressive, lyrical Persian drama about life after divorce.
Read more
Not Trying to Be Beautiful: An Interview with Selina Miles
Ivana Brehas talks to Martha: A Picture Story’s Selina Miles about joyful art, documenting graffiti and working with legendary art photographer, Martha Cooper.
Read more
Disney Princesses and the Women Who Made Them
Tansy Gardam searches for a fairytale ending in Disney’s first century of female animators and characters.
Read more
Review: Judy & Punch
Mirrah Foulkes’ audacious, violent debut puppeteers together tense domestic drama with a cartoonish shock comedy.
Read more
Common Threads: An Interview with I Am No Bird’s Em Baker
Ivana Brehas speaks with director Em Baker about the myth of the bride, documentary ethics, and the resilience of women.
Read more
A Reflection on Pain and Glory
Sophie Gibson ponders Pedro Almodóvar’s latest in a series of gentle and personal reflections.
Read more
Review: Blinded by the Light
Like its starry-eyed protagonist, Gurinder Chadha’s teen film is far too obsessed with Springsteen for its own good.
Read more