In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai’s romance film about two people who form an unlikely bond is as gorgeous as it is engaging.
Category: film reviews
Lincoln (2012)
Steven Spielberg’s latest proves to be a reserved, timely biopic of Abraham Lincoln’s last few months as President of the United States.
Restless, The (Korean Film)
An exquisitely shot film with some brilliant artwork that tells the story of the precarious balance between the divine and the sinister, and how love acts as the ultimate power of the universe.
Man with the Iron Fists, The
RZA’s debut is entirely ridiculous and tries harder than it should, but it’s a whole bunch of fun anyway.
Frankenweenie (2012)
Frankenweenie works because it is about the things Tim Burton knows and loves, and it’s the core of what Tim Burton is.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a beautifully told film about souls in motion throughout time and space and the connection they share.
Tableau, Le (Animated Film)
Shaped after the styles of Picasso and Matisse, Le Tableau (or The Painting) tells the story of the characters of an unfinished painting, who decide to look for The Painter and let him finish his work.
Floating City (2012)
Set in Hong Kong, from the 40s until the late 90s and the Hong Kong handover, Floating City chronicles the life of Bo Wah-Chuen, an adopted mixed-raced child who is taken by a Tanka family to inherit the family’s vessel as the elder son, who struggles to find who he is.
Wrinkles (Animated Film)
Arrugas, or Wrinkles if you may, is an adaptation of the Paco Roca award-winning graphic novel of the same name, telling the story of Emilio, and old man put away in an elderly home by his son because Emilio has become an inconvenience to him and his wife.
Memories of Matsuko
A woman’s violent misadventures cast with a colorful and quite shimmering clout that was Matsuko’s life of giving without ever taking.
