‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ Review: Style Reigns Over Substance in Dizzying Giallo-Inspired Thriller
For their latest movie, which premiered earlier this year in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival, filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani fully lean into their fancy for Giallo cinema to deliver a work packed to the brim with stylistic flourish, although drastically detouring from any sense of satisfying narrative coherence in the process.
‘The Ice Tower’ Review: A Frosty, Hitchcockian Spin on a Classic Fairytale
French filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s 2025 Berlinale winner casts a wholly hypnotic spell through its explorations of obsession and belonging.
‘Who by Fire’ Review: Resentments Ignite on Vacation in Philippe Lesage’s Enthralling New Movie
The latest work from the Quebecois filmmaker, Who by Fire utilizes the framework of a bad vacation to astutely deliver a coming-of-age tale that is both highly refined and refreshed in its approach to a tried and true concept.
‘The Empire’ Review: A Simultaneously Zany and Inert Reworking of the Sci-Fi Space Opera
French auteur Bruno Dumont’s Berlinale-winner The Empire is a genre-mashing comedy that is light on humor but heavy on impressive craftsmanship.
‘Special Operation’ Review: Kyiv-Based Filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski Pieces Together CCTV Footage to Document the Earliest Days of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Compiled entirely from surveillance footage from the security cameras at the Chornobyl Power Plant, Special Operation leans into the pure reality of imagery to remark on the ongoing Russian assault on Ukraine.