Review: The Snowman

The Snowman is missing so much basic connective tissue as to be rendered almost completely inexplicable.

Review: Norman

Writer-director Joseph Cedar charts Norman’s rise-and-fall arc with the attention to detail of a procedural.

Review: Samba

Even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.

Review: 3 Hearts

Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty.

Review: Misunderstood

The film is only slightly dependent on the self-pity that informed Asia Argento’s The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, but it feels similarly airless.

Review: Nymphomaniac: Volume II

The sex in Nymphomaniac is inhuman, mechanical, boring, and predictably viewed through the (male) scrim of someone who characterizes women solely as withholders.

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