10 Recent Movies That Divide Audiences and Critics

While critics and audiences have always had different tastes and opinions when it comes to certain movies, over the past few years it seems those differences have become overly radical. Nowadays, audiences seem to loathe movies that critics praise, and vice versa. If you were to pinpoint one movie over the last that started this […]

10 Must-See Movie Masterpieces of French Crime Cinema

Le Samouraï

Cinema and France. Or is it better to say France and cinema? The birth of an infant motion picture dates from 1895, by the French Lumière brothers. But apart from giving rise to the whole foundation of arthouse cinema, including cornerstone films as “Un Chien Andalou” and “À bout de soufflé,” France has also focused […]

Under the Silver Lake – VIFF 2018 Review

“It’s silly wasting time on something that doesn’t matter,” says a dreamy young woman with a fondness for balloons (Grace Van Patten) to an embittered and unemployed young man turned would-be detective named Sam (Andrew Garfield) in writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s surreal new film, Under the Silver Lake. It’s one of those almost throwaway lines […]