Screening at New York Film Festival: Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’
Gilroy seldom finds meaningful visual or thematic throughlines, resulting in a work of heightened moments and performances that work wonders individually, but never harmonize.
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Screening at Venice: Halkawt Mustafa’s ‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By a Woman’
It's one of the most immaculately designed war films you're likely to see this year, with an enveloping use of environment and atmosphere. But when it comes to filling that space with dynamic drama, sadly, it misses its mark.
Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Renders Queer Desire Against the Machinery of War
The film, for all its faults, subverts hyper-masculine war tropes to focus on intimacy, queer desire and art as a tool of survival.
