Nightmare Alley (1947)
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (4½ stars out of 5) Nightmare Alley (1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding Not the best or the most elegantly complex of the post-war American noirs...
Science and Religion, The Confrontational Ontology in The Exorcist
Father Karras: Why her? Why this girl? Father Merrin: I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as… animal and ugly. To...
Carnival Story (1954)
⭐⭐½ (2½ stars out of 5) Carnival Story (1954) Directed by Kurt Neumann Raunchy and contrived, and vaguely beguiling when you get carried away by its...
The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 stars out of 5) The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) Directed by Lucio Fulci Only someone as sensationalist, showy and suggestive as the flamboyant poet...
Ménilmontant (1926)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 stars out of 5) Ménilmontant (1926) Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff This impressionistic and spasmodic avant-garde film by the unsung genius and leading exponent of...
Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)
⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars out of 5) Four Steps in the Clouds (1942) Directed by Alessandro Blasetti Incredible to think that this dramedy so asynchronous in rhythm...
Elvis (2022)
⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars out of 5) Elvis (2022) Directed by Baz Luhrmann There are not a few, but several particular moments in this festive hymn to...
Swamp Water (1941)
⭐⭐½ (2½ stars out of 5) Swamp Water (1941) Directed by Jean Renoir You can almost taste the discomfort and restraint that Jean Renoir’s immeasurable talent...
Vortex (2021)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 stars out of 5) Vortex (2021) Directed by Gaspar Noé A giant, deafening step by contemporary cinema’s most divisive polemicist Gaspar Noé, the relentless...
The Carabineers (1963)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 stars out of 5) The Carabineers (1963) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard One of the most decipherable Godardian fables, although not for that reason the...