Review: Blindsided (2021)
Plot-wise, Blindsided walks on the fairly familiar territory, but Bjarnason is a competent storyteller to make it interesting.
May 2021
Review: Dalia (2020)
Ólason embraces the clichés of the festival-friendly Icelandic cinema in order to tell the ages old story of fatherhood and turns them into the film’s strength.
Review: Spaghetti (Loosely Based on a True Story) (2021)
If you think you are having a bad day, remember that someone else is probably having even a worse one.
Review: Monday (2020)
Monday seems like an ambitiously constructed film, especially for a short, but ends up resembling an exercise in style when it comes to the “hyperlink” filmmaking.
Review: Kitchen by Measure (2020)
The story itself is fun enough to follow and keeps the viewer in the light laugh-ready mood for all of the film’s 13 minutes of runtime by playing with our expectations.
Review: Island Living (2020)
No man is an island, but the life in a broken home in a small coastal town is a pretty solitary experience for the twelve-year-old Bragi.
Hot Docs review: The Doll
Esmaili doesn’t intervene, she lets the story flow its seemingly free flow through the voices and gestures of the protagonists…
Review: You And I (2020)
The feature debut You And I by the Indonesian filmmaker Fanny Chotimah is documentary about the two survivors of the Indonesian Mass Killings (1965-66)
Review: Best Year Ever (2020)
In his short offbeat documentary ‘Best Year Ever’, James N. Kienitz Wilkins takes a cynical look at the past year by adapting Richard Scarry’s epic children book classic, which sees different animal families enjoying all kind of activities during the four seasons.
