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Review of Dune (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 24 Oct 2021

Grander in scope than any of Villeneuve’s work yet, Dune is proper, ambitious blockbuster filmmaking for grown-ups…

Review of Cryptozoo (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 24 Oct 2021

Though its 60s-inspired, Gilliam-esque animation style is certainly awkward enough to draw the notice of the arthouse and indie crowds, Cryptozoo’s…

Review of Invisible Life (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 15 Oct 2021

While Duarte and Stockler’s deeply-felt turns anchor the film from drifting into simplistic sentimentality, Hélène Louvart’s sumptuous…

Review of The Alpinist (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 23 Sep 2021

The footage of Leclerc ascending sheer, near-featureless sheets of rock is so defiant of physics that it is easy to forget just how mind-bogglingly…

Review of The Lost Leonardo (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 11 Sep 2021

The Lost Leonardo is about obsession, ego, power and greed…

Review of Pig (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 23 Aug 2021

Pig offers something strangely tender and even sometimes lyrical, wrapped up in the trappings of a noirish thriller that is as much a satire…

Review of The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 28 Jul 2021

Andrésen became an overnight worldwide sensation and, through the lens of documentarians Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, an object…

Review of Sweat (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 24 Jun 2021

Structured in parts like a thriller, Sweat is truly most successful as a character study, while its representation of social media gives rise…

Review of Shiva Baby (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 10 Jun 2021

Shiva Baby is ostensibly a comedy yet has all the tension of a thriller…

Review of The Killing of Two Lovers (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 04 Jun 2021

Machoian has crafted an intense, moving and bleak portrait of a disintegrating marriage and fractured masculinity…

Review of First Cow (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 27 May 2021

What we are left with instead is a story of astonishing tenderness; a study of love as a tempering salve to the sublime of history’s passing…

Review of Sound of Metal (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 18 May 2021

Sound of Metal is an astonishing accomplishment for both its long-nascent director and its British star, Riz Ahmed, for whom his turn as heavy…

Review of Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 03 Apr 2021

The film undoubtedly delivers, with all the monster thumping and building smashing that we could want, not to mention a not-so-surprise late…

Review of The Dissident (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 Mar 2021

Bryan Fogel’s new documentary painstakingly – and painfully – traces the moments up to and following Khashoggi’s murder…

Review of The Father (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 Mar 2021

In his astonishingly assured debut feature, French playwright-turned-director Florian Zeller handles the mental decline of an elderly man with…

Review of A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 15 Feb 2021

A Glitch in the Matrix’s incuriosity and unstructured approach to its material at best mirror its subjects’ modes of thinking; at worst,…

Review of Slalom (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 14 Feb 2021

In seeking to understand both abuser and abused, Slalom offers a truly nuanced picture of abuse without sacrificing indictment…

Review of Beginning (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 29 Jan 2021

As a purely aesthetic cinematic experience, Beginning will surely number among the best of the year…

Review of Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 26 Jan 2021

As a fictionalised account of what was once described as the worst European genocide in the post-war period, Quo Vadis, Aida…

Review of Dear Comrades! (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 19 Jan 2021

Dear Comrades! works well as an historical drama, a political satire and even a cold-war thriller…

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