Onlookers
By Jeffery Berg February 12, 2024
Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.
Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.
Film critics Pollyanna Positive and Negative Nancy took in Belgian director Bas Devos’s Here and came away with very different views of the movie.
A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.
The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.
At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.
A sometimes-chaotic family drama that takes the measure of facing terminal illness little by little, scene by scene.
J.A. Bayona’s approach to the famous 1972 Andes plane crash is a classic Hollywood tug-on-the-heartstrings affair.