Film Reviews, Interviews and Articles
The therapeutic power of art reverberates through both creator and observer. There’s something that stirs the human spirit in encountering it, especially when it comes carved straight off the bone of the soul. And no emotion strikes deeper than the sorrow born of tragedy. In Chloé Zhao’s powerhouse of a dramatic tearjerker, Hamnet, tragedy and art are married through a human tapestry of love and loss. Buckle up and bring the Kleenex. Read More
David Lowery is a visual poet. Throughout his celebrated career, the Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon, and A Ghost Story director has leaned on visual language and unconventional film grammar to connect with audiences, championing the emotional resonance of imagery over traditional narrative structure. In many ways, his films are in the same vein as American auteur Terrence Malick: thoughtful and dense, visually resplendent, whispery tone poems designated strictly for the Film Buff crowd. In that capacity, Lowery suffers Malick’s shortcomings, particularly as it pertains to resting too much within the opaque interiority of his characters and letting plotting fall by the wayside.