God’s Country
By Paul Weissman September 16, 2022
In this quiet psychological thriller set in rural Montana, Thandiwe Newton plays a college professor standing her ground against an entire community.
In this quiet psychological thriller set in rural Montana, Thandiwe Newton plays a college professor standing her ground against an entire community.
A thriller that starts off feeling like a classic gothic horror update and unexpectedly ends as a post-feminist revenge flick, with Alice Krige giving a master class performance.
Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.
Intricate and masterful, strange and heartbreaking, Only the Animals is a great new entry into the multilinear narrative canon.
Whether you end up satisfied or disappointed depends on if you follow the advise of one of the movie’s narrators: pay attention to details.
One thing for sure, when watching the blood-splattered and blunt Titane, you never know where it’s heading. It plays by its own rules.
The award for the most intriguing one-off at the festival goes to this story of demonic possession and romance, mixed with devilishly dark satire.
Restraint is the name of the game in Paul Schrader’s new film.
An uneasy new film that grapples with the darkness of growing up in a world distinguished by its overwhelming numbness.