
Film criticism from the undercurrent: misread performances, psychoanalytic frames, cultural memory
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At just eighteen minutes, Reuben Hamlyn’s Sunday’s Children somehow feels impossibly expansive. Premiering in the La Cinef selection at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the film carries the emotional density of a fractured romance, a philosop...
On a quiet evening in Downtown Cairo, the lights dim inside a modest screening room on Emad El-Deen Street. The film about to begin will not trend on Egyptian social media, nor will its actors appear on billboards across the city. It is sub...
There is a contradiction at the heart of contemporary cinema. Audiences have never before been offered more comfort, more spectacle, or more choice. Reclining seats, premium formats, private lounges, curated programming. The industry...
It feels faintly reductive to respond to a claim so historically thin, but when it is repeated with enough confidence, it begins to pass for truth. The suggestion that Europe should be grateful to the United States is one such claim. It is...
Premiering at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, Boots Riley’s latest film uses the language of the heist comedy to interrogate the strange economics of luxury fashion. Beneath its anarchic humour is a deeper question. How do brands...
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