Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #1-2 (2022) 14 Jan 202214 Jan 2022 Titane (2021): So how about something completely different? Julia Ducournau's follow up to Raw (2016) is, if not more polarizing, then at least more abstract. The plot is somewhat simple:…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #52 (2021) 31 Dec 2021 The French Dispatch (2021): Wes Anderson is one of the most stylistically distinctive directors out there - and you either love the style or love it much less than you…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #51 (2021) 24 Dec 2021 The Novice (2021): Lauren Hadaway's debut feature is what you'd expect to see if you zoomed into those rowing scenes during The Social Network and applied the Black Swan treatment…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #50 (2021) 18 Dec 2021 Boiling Point (2021): Movies set in kitchens are...tight! But also exciting, dynamic and quite depressing, given the intensity so dutifully portrayed in each and every restaurant-based-story. Boiling Point conjures a…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #46-49 (2021) 10 Dec 2021 Celle que vous croyez (2019): A more extreme version of the "voices in our head" theme, Safy Nebbou's movie tells Claire's story of unrequited love. Clair, a 50something woman, is…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #45 (2021) 14 Nov 2021 Bergman Island (2021): I am almost willing to say that I'm ashamed of never having seen a Bergman movie (well, does half of The Seventh Seal count?). But I openly…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #44 (2021) 5 Nov 2021 Dune (2021): The much awaited adaptation from Denis Villeneuve has finally arrived. Its limitations lie in the scope and breadth of the source material, so very difficult to adapt into…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #40-43 (2021) 29 Oct 2021 The Card Counter (2021): Paul Schrader surprised everyone with First Reformed, after a series of very lame ducks throughout the 00s. His follow-up, chronologically and thematically, is also a standout…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #39 (2021) 1 Oct 2021 Bodied (2017): I have zero rapping affinities, but there's something inherently cool in this witty, irreverent and ambitious movie. Joseph Kahn didn't quite convince me with his previous feature, Detention,…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #38 (2021) 24 Sep 2021 Schumacher (2021): The docu takes us from Michael’s financially-stricken youth to his first title for Ferrari, before fast-forwarding through the next ten+ years. It makes some sense, because most of…
Week In, Week Out Movie of the Week #36-37 (2021) 17 Sep 202117 Sep 2021 CODA (2021): Not sure why I have a bit of a fascination with movies portraying the deaf community - while sometimes crude in their depiction, they tend to charm me.…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #35 (2021) 3 Sep 2021 In the Same Breath (2021): Nanfu Wang follows up the traumatizing One Child Nation with an infuriating documentary about the early days of the COVID pandemic. There's something in Wang's…
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