Drunken Birds is centered around a sort of hopeless romanticism, but at its core, it unravels a somber social commentary about the exploitation of migrant workers caught in the nets of a white man’s world. It has been ten years since Ivan Grbovic's last feature Romeo Eleven explored such lush emotions and this time Drunken…

Harry Wootliff’s True Things was pitched as a relatable film about toxic relationships, but it wound up being an extremely impersonal, banal depiction of a relationship that is more impulsive than toxic. Whatever commentary it sought to make about this particular brand of relationship was wasted on a weak script that even Ruth Wilson couldn’t…

Kate Dolan's directorial feature debut takes on the task of weaving folklore about changelings with familial struggles. In You Are Not My Mother horror is reframed within the confines of a quaint Irish home where terror lies within the shocking transformation Char (Hazel Doupe) witnesses in her mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken). You Are Not My…

On the surface, the title for Barry Levinson’s The Survivor seems to be derived from Harry Haft’s title as “The Survivor of Auschwitz,” but on a much deeper level, it is because his survival is marred by survivor’s guilt. Ben Foster Gives a Knockout Performance in The Survivor, a Brutal and Sobering Film  In the…