Undine (2021; Christian Petzold) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select cinemas and on VOD services. “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you.” The mildly inscrutable Undine is my third Petzold experience, following the similarly admirable yet underwhelming Phoenix and Transit. However, it’s the first time I […]
Riders of Justice (2021; Anders Thomas Jensen) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select cinemas and on VOD services. Mikkelsen Goes Mads-eval Riders of Justice is revenge therapy, Danish style, as Mads Mikkelsen goes Mads-eval on the asses of the white supremacists who may have killed his […]
About Endlessness (2021; Roy Andersson) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opening Friday, April 30, at the Roxie Virtual Cinema and Rafael@Home. “What should I do know that I have lost my faith?” I named Roy Andersson’s “righteous and unsettling” A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence my […]
A Tale of Springtime (1990; Eric Rohmer) GRADE: B+ A Summer’s Tale (1996; Eric Rohmer) GRADE: A- By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in the Roxie Virtual Cinema and BAMPFA. A Tale of Springtime is the first film in French auteur Eric Rohmer‘s Tales of the Four Seasons series, currently […]
Better Days (2019; Derek Tsang) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select theaters and virtual cinemas and on Hulu and VOD services. This Academy Award nominee received Hong Kong’s first Best International Feature Film nod in nearly three decades, which is insane. Unfortunately and all too […]
Another Round (2020; Thomas Vinterberg) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select theaters and on VOD services. Dogme 95 refugee Thomas Vinterberg (The Commune and Far from the Madding Crowd) reunites with The Hunt star Mads Mikkelsen for this alcohol-soaked, coming-of-middle-age drama. Mikkelsen excels as Martin, a depressed high […]
