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In 'American Fiction' and 'Shortcomings,' Race is Only Half the Story

Mar 14, 2024 | film-cred.com | Kathy Li

You’d be forgiven if, judging solely by the film’s marketing materials, you thought American Fiction was all biting satire, a full-throated indictment of the publishing industry and the well-meaning but coddled white liberals who populate it.
'Drive-Away Dolls' - Film Cred

Mar 1, 2024 | film-cred.com | Cory Stillman

Comparison may be the thief of joy, but Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls may not offer much joy in the first place. Besides, it is difficult to talk about Drive-Away Dolls — Ethan’s first solo feature, the 2022 documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind notwithstanding — without comparing it to other films. For example, take 2021’s The Tragedy of MacBeth, the first solo feature from Joel Coen, the yin to Ethan’s directorial yang.
'Backspot' - Film Cred

Dec 27, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

There is something inarguably captivating about observing a professional pour the whole of their mind, body, and spirit into their chosen craft with reckless abandon.
TIFF Review: 'Flora and Son'

Dec 27, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

In the utopian eye of writer-director John Carney, there has not been a personal or familial crisis that cannot be mended through the liberating act of strumming out a few licks on an acoustic guitar.
TIFF Review: 'Aggro Dr1ft'

Dec 27, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft, the film he has been promoting in his signature method of rambling, incoherent interviews as some kind of experiment in post-cinematic sensory experience, offers up all it has to show you by the thirty minute mark of it’s fleeting 80 minute runtime. The primary trick up the film’s sleeve — the auspicious aesthetic decision to exclusively film with infrared cameras — creates the distancing effect Korine was no doubt aiming for.
London Film Festival Review: 'All of Us Strangers'

Oct 31, 2023 | film-cred.com | Katie Kasperson

Loosely based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is a story as intensely beautiful as its opening scene: the audience overlooks the London skyline as the sun rises, slowly revealing Adam (Andrew Scott), aglow in the orange light. He’s alone. We’re soon met with a montage of bored, restless activity; eating takeaway food, falling asleep in front of the TV, and hunching over a laptop, utterly uninspired.
London Film Festival Review: 'The Boy and the Heron'

Oct 30, 2023 | film-cred.com | Katie Kasperson

When Hayao Miyazaki released The Wind Rises, he announced his retirement – for the third time. A decade on and seemingly nowhere near finished, The Boy and the Heron proves that he still has a story to tell. Set during WWII, the film follows a young boy named Mahito, whose mother dies in a hospital fire. The opening scene marks a surprising departure from the Miyazaki we’ve come to expect, mixing slow motion with POV shots – both uncharacteristic of the iconic animator.
'Bottoms' Is Exactly What Queer and Trans People of Color Need

Sep 12, 2023 | film-cred.com | Sam Huang

When I walked out of the Bottoms screening at a local LBGT+ film festival, I left with my heart overflowing with a sense of pride I thought I’d never experience. The first queer film I ever saw in theaters was Love, Simon. I was 14 years old and only came out as queer a few months before the film’s release.
Fantasia Review: 'Sand Land'

Aug 9, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

The arid desert wasteland as an end of world scenario in post-apocalyptic fiction leaves little to no new ground to cover. Due to its overuse, the simplicity of its setting and its cautionary significance to our present dismal treatment of the environment, the image of an endless inhospitable terrain stretching into an unforgiving, sun-baked horizon has become fundamentally synonymous with the genre.
Interview: 'Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken' Composer Stephanie Economou

Jul 17, 2023 | film-cred.com | Rachel Reeves

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