The Brutalist [2024] – ★★★1/2 If The Pianist (2002) was Paris’s Notre-Dame de Paris, a soulful meditation on human struggle and condition, then The Brutalist is London’s Barbican Centre – empty in everything but performance and concrete image. It is an audacious construction of a film that, like much of modern architecture, is soulless. Directed by Brady…
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“The Shrouds” Review
The Shrouds is a stylishly-executed film that pulls you in just on the basis of its intriguing, macabre concept of “the shrouds”, an invention that raises all sorts of moral and philosophical questions.
“Brimstone” Review
Brimstone [2017] – ★★★★ Brimstone is a highly controversial film produced by Dutch director Martin Koolhoven. The film’s non-linear plot follows Liz (Dakota Fanning), a young girl and then woman, who is plagued by the harassment and persecution of one – the Reverend (Guy Pearce). Unflinching in a way it portrays controversial topics and beautiful…
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