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Category: Film Reviews

  • Sinners (2025)

    Sinners (2025)

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    Walking out of Sinners, I thought: human creativity will never be exhausted. Yes, we’re surrounded by a bland artistic landscape shaped by algorithms that attract and desiccate human minds. The tech companies are carnivorous pitcher plants and we are flies…and then a film like Ryan Coogler’s Sinners restores perspective. There is a reservoir of beauty…

  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

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    I wasn’t expecting Singin’ in the Rain to be quite so…psychedelic. And also, if one is lacking hallucinogenic assistance, so boring. Yes, Gene Kelly’s athleticism is a marvel. Donald O’Connor’s body-and-soul commitment to “Make ‘Em Laugh” deserves our respect. But it’s all so empty. Critics gush over the film’s feel-good purity, but isn’t this exactly…

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024)

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    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is not a story: it’s a feeling. A clip of Nina Simone singing a few bars of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of Hollis Brown”—”The rats have got your flour/Bad blood it got your mare/If there’s anyone that knows/Is there anyone that cares?”—plays several times in the film, and each time one…