Silent Hill: Townfall Review: The Fog Has Rules Now
The CRTV gives you just enough information to make a bad decision with confidence. Step into an enemy-heavy stretch of...
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The most unsettling thing about an archive is that everyone inside it is alive. They walk through Moscow streets, wait beneath shop windows, dance at weddings, wash clothes in winter water, sing, work, stare into the lens. Children sometimes hold the camera’s gaze longer than adults do, their faces still open enough to suggest that something private might slip through. It never quite does. Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium brings these people remarkably close, then reminds us that closeness is not knowledge. We can study their expressions for hours and still know almost nothing about what they believed, feared, or expected from...

Contraception is one of those subjects where technological progress and everyday behavior seem strangely out of sync. At a healthcare expo in Las Vegas, Vaishali Sinha asks a man if he uses birth control. His answer is that he does not, though his wife does. It is a small exchange, almost casual, yet it gives Give It a Shot its most useful starting point. Reproductive responsibility may belong to two people, but the physical burden has rarely been divided so neatly. That imbalance becomes funnier, and stranger, once L.R. Fox starts walking the expo floor telling vendors that he is...

Fairy tales are unusually efficient machines. A red hood, a glass slipper, a wolf, an apple: each object arrives carrying centuries of accumulated meaning before anyone has explained a thing. Horror filmmakers know this very well, which is partly why public-domain folklore has become such attractive territory. Recognition comes free. Interpretation does not. That distinction becomes the central problem with Ever After. Writer-director László Illés and co-writer László Krisztián Gera gather Little Red Riding Hood, Prince Charming, witches, wolves, frogs and other familiar figures inside a remote forest, then turn them loose on a bachelorette party. The premise sounds almost...

Watching the same family crisis three times is a dangerous proposition for any film. The second pass needs to alter the first, and the third needs to justify everything the audience has already been asked to reconsider. Radik Eshimov’s Burning builds its entire narrative around that risk. Its repeated structure creates the film’s best tension, exposes the unreliability of communal storytelling, and eventually becomes the source of its most noticeable strain. The fixed point is a house fire. As firefighters battle the blaze, neighbors shelter in a nearby shop and speculate about what happened to the family living there. Marat...

Desire gives Maya permission to look long before she has earned the right to understand. That distinction hangs over Anita Doron’s Maya & Samar, an erotic drama whose most revealing imbalance has little to do with the explicitness of its sex. The film grants us considerable access to Samar’s body, her history, and the danger surrounding her, yet comparatively little access to Samar herself. It is a curious ethical arrangement for a story so alert to the hazards of turning another person into material. Maya, played by Nicolette Pearse, is a Toronto journalist visiting her old friend Rebecca in Athens....

Studio BBB has built a game about emotion that rarely asks the player to read much about emotion. Happiness sends Mono higher. Anger lets him scale walls. Sorrow changes how he moves through water and narrow spaces. Anxiety protects him from danger. Then those same feelings can be sung into the creatures sharing each level, changing what they do and, with it, the geography of the stage. The idea is simple enough to understand within minutes. Its consequences take nearly the entire game to unfold. That clarity suits a debut made in Seoul and released into a genre whose visual...
The CRTV gives you just enough information to make a bad decision with confidence. Step into an enemy-heavy stretch of...
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Read moreDetails"La Bola Negra," the Spanish epic from directing duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. It is the first Netflix release to take the festival's top audience prize. The film follows three gay men whose lives connect across...
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Read moreThe most unsettling thing about an archive is that everyone inside it is alive. They walk through Moscow streets, wait beneath shop windows, dance at weddings, wash clothes in winter...
Contraception is one of those subjects where technological progress and everyday behavior seem strangely out of sync. At a healthcare expo in Las Vegas, Vaishali Sinha asks a man if...
Fairy tales are unusually efficient machines. A red hood, a glass slipper, a wolf, an apple: each object arrives carrying centuries of accumulated meaning before anyone has explained a thing....
Watching the same family crisis three times is a dangerous proposition for any film. The second pass needs to alter the first, and the third needs to justify everything the...
Desire gives Maya permission to look long before she has earned the right to understand. That distinction hangs over Anita Doron’s Maya & Samar, an erotic drama whose most revealing...
Studio BBB has built a game about emotion that rarely asks the player to read much about emotion. Happiness sends Mono higher. Anger lets him scale walls. Sorrow changes how...
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Studio BBB has built a game about emotion that rarely asks the player to read much about emotion. Happiness sends...
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