New York Film Festival: “Hall of Mirrors” (2017) ★★★★★
The most innocent looking person could often be the guiltiest one. Those with childishly innocent faces are often capable to fool us more easily. I might be wrong, but I have [continue reading]
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New York Film Festival Review: “A Gentle Night” (2017) ★★★★★
The number of disappeared people keeps growing day by day. Those numbers are even more alarming when it comes to kids being kidnapped after school. So many reasons cause such [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: “The Square” (2017) ★★★★★
What do we do in our daily lives? Do we care about our actions and do we try to contribute to our society through those actions or by being responsible citizens? Or maybe [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: “Mudbound” (2017) ★★★★★
In the face of danger we are all the same. The color of our skins don’t matter, have the same fate and belong to no specific community but only – a universal world. [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: “Wonderstruck” (2017) ★★★★★
What can a film with dual timelines offer to its viewer? Or better ask – how can someone so cleverly bring together two different plots, happening fifty years apart [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: “The Florida Project” (2017) ★★★★★
The society we are living in is broken and nobody tries to fix it. When I am saying nobody, I am not saying you or me. I am talking about those who are in charge and [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: Greta Gerwig`s “Lady Bird” (2017) ★★★★★
Greta Gerwig probably is the only filmmaker from the twenty first century who knows well how to combine America’s screwball comedies from the Golden Era with [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: “The Rape of Recy Taylor” (2017) ★★★★
Every time I watch a documentary film like “The Rape of Recy Taylor” I keep asking myself the same question – why on earth we did nothing to prevent racial [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: ”BPM (Beats Per Minute)” (2017) ★★★★★
There are not that many films that talk about AIDS infected individuals, how the pharmaceutical companies take their approach toward such a deadly disease, and the government [continue reading]
New York Film Festival Review: “Ismael`s Ghosts” (2017) ★★
Simple storyline is something we should rarely expect to find in European film. In most cases, we can know from the beginning – there will be no such thing as a simple [continue reading]
