Throughout You Won’t Be Alone, writer-director Goran Stolevski rejects the slickness that defines so-called elevated horror.
Unfortunately, the care with which the filmmakers set up Them That Follow’s context and their characters crumbles in the final act.
A civics lesson in Alison Maclean’s film tethers a promising tale of artistic toil to the strictures of melodrama.
This would-be blockbuster goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time-travel sci-fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.
The film trades entirely in falsely literate seriousness and maudlin high tragedy.
According to reports from Sundance, In Fear drew a lot of inspiration from The Blair Witch Project.
Though Ginger & Rosa is arguably Sally Potter’s best work to date, it’s certainly the filmmaker’s most accessible.
Sally Potter packs so much detail and thematic heft into 90-minute films that, given her elliptical and often unemphatic presentation, feel tantalizing but never overstuffed.