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Kevin Jagernauth

Montreal

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Contributing Critic at The Playlist

Writer of words, feeler of feelings. kevinjag at gmail dot com.

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  • 2 weeks ago | ioncinema.com | Kevin Jagernauth

    Buliana Simon Shines In Gritty Immigrant Story That Struggles To Take FlightAs the opening credits reveal, Aisha Can’t Fly was developed with the support of almost every international film festival and lab you can think of. Unfortunately, all that the time spent inside the industry kitchen results in director Morad Mostafa’s debut feature coming out of the oven overworked and over-seasoned.

  • 2 weeks ago | thefilmverdict.com | Kevin Jagernauth

    In the middle of the Venn diagram of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Quentin Dupieux, and Charlie Kaufman, you might find Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke and his debut feature film A Useful Ghost. Marvellously inventive, what begins as an unlikely ghost story and tragic romance, evolves into an affecting look at what haunts Thailand’s national memories, and the dreams of the future that can never fully shake the past.

  • 2 weeks ago | ioncinema.com | Kevin Jagernauth

    The Family Tree Grows Tangled Roots In Romane Bohringer’s Metafictional FeatureFamily can make you and family can break you apart. The ties that bind are the same that can cinch too tight, leaving you bound to those that have done you harm. Loosening those bonds, finding yourself, and coming to an understanding of the person who raised you, as imperfect as they might’ve been, forms the heart of Romane Bohringer’s Dites-lui que je l’aime (Tell Her I Love Her).

  • 2 weeks ago | ioncinema.com | Kevin Jagernauth

    Male Friendship Comes Apart In Hubert Charuel’s Assured Sophomore FeatureA meteorite enters Earth’s atmosphere moving up to 72 kilometers per second and (usually) burns up before striking the ground. Best friends Mika (Paul Kircher) and Daniel (Idir Azougli) seem to move with just as much potential destructive force in Hubert Charuel’s drama Meteors.

  • 3 weeks ago | ioncinema.com | Kevin Jagernauth

    Tom Cruise Can’t Stunt His Way Out Of A Middling ‘Mission’ FinaleAt this point in the Mission: Impossible series, franchise stewards — star Tom Cruise, and writer/director Christopher McQuarrie — have trained audiences to expect, well, the impossible. Purchasing a ticket means a promise to see Cruise spit in the face of God, and put his very life on the line pursuing an escalating number of daredevil stunts for the entertainment of us mere mortals.

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