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2 months ago | 
timeout.com | David Fear |Keith Uhlich |Andy Kryza |Joshua Rothkopf
Photo: Courtesy of Janus Films | "La Jetée"Photo: Courtesy of Janus FilmsLooking to take a trip abroad from the comfort of your couch? The best foreign films of all time are your passport. Tuesday 25 February 2025FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppContributors: Joshua Rothkopf & David FearAdvertisingWhen South Korean director Bong Joon Ho collected his Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for Parasite, in 2019, he teased the audience for its hesitancy to embrace international filmmaking.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich
History unfolds with on-the-ground immediacy in director Julia Loktev’s first feature since 2011’s The Loneliest Planet, as well as her second nonfiction work after 1998’s Moment of Impact. Running five-and-a-half hours and split into five chapters, My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow chronicles the hardscrabble efforts and eventual exile of a group of young Russian journalists who work for the independent news channel TV Rain.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich
Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burrough’s second novel, Queer, begins, shall we say, peculiarly. Sinéad O’Connor’s haunting cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies” scores overhead shots of what we soon realize is Burroughs’s own writing space, every object (a typewriter, drug paraphernalia, hastily scattered pages, an abundance of handguns) alluding with cringey literalness to the Beat Generation author’s thorny mythos.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich
An eventful week in the waning days of a medieval English village provides the narrative backbone for Harvest, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s moody-verging-on-mopish adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel of the same name. The book is written in a bewitching prose style somewhere between a monologue and a first-person essay.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich |Jake Cole
George Miller gets biblical in the opening of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the fifth installment in his postapocalyptic action franchise. The young Furiosa (Alyla Browne) picks a ripe piece of fruit from a tree growing at the edge of a verdant forest. “We’ve come too far,” says her companion, emphasizing the forbidden nature of the act with the perfect amount of allegorical on-the-noseness.
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May 28, 2024 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich
Writer-director Chris Nash’s feature directorial debut, In a Violent Nature, opens in eerie serenity, with a gorgeously layered image of a forest seen through a deteriorated window frame. Birdsong and gentle breezes take aural precedence, though there are off-screen human voices of an evidently teen-to-twentysomething variety that clash discordantly with all the verdant beauty. The camera eventually tracks laterally, rack-focusing to reveal a locket hanging around a pipe.
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May 27, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Matthew Singer |Keith Uhlich |Joshua Rothkopf |David Fear
Photograph: Universal PicturesPiss off your parents with our countdown of the most ferociously fun movies about youth and rebellion. Written by Matthew SingerContributors Keith Uhlich, Joshua Rothkopf & David FearTuesday 28 May 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingIf weâre being honest, not all the kids are all right. In fact, some are downright rude. Murderous, even.
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May 16, 2024 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich
George Miller gets biblical in the opening moments of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the fifth instalment in his postapocalyptic action franchise. The young Furiosa, played by Alyla Browne, picks a ripe piece of fruit from a tree growing at the edge of a verdant forest. “We’ve come too far,” says her companion, emphasizing the forbidden nature of the act with the perfect amount of allegorical on-the-noseness.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
timeout.com | Keith Uhlich |Joshua Rothkopf |David Fear |Trevor Johnston
Get into the game with our definitive list of the best sports movies, from inspirational dramas to rude comediesWritten by Keith Uhlich, Joshua Rothkopf, David Fear, Trevor Johnston & Matthew SingerTuesday 16 April 2024FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingSports are the apex of genuine human drama. Sure, for non-fans, professional athletics can seem like frivolous games, and in the broad view, thatâs perhaps what they are.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
slantmagazine.com | Keith Uhlich
Blitz Bazawule’s big-screen adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple and its 2005 musical theater production (featuring a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray) is basically echo-chamber karaoke. The film knows the words and tunes but, with rare exception, lacks the passion and the perspective to make them truly resonate.
