BIFF: Monos (2019)
Monos is a surprising film, which is perhaps the best thing an arthouse film can be.
Hustlers Takes Gangster Movies All the Way to the Strip Club
Hustlers is not only a raucously entertaining riff on gangster tropes – it also has its own perspective.
Booksmart (2019)
It might only be a minor adjustment to shift a story traditionally centred on teen boys to teen girls, but it makes all the difference.
Rocketman Transcends Rock Star Biopic Homogeneity
Right from the get-go, Rocketman steps out as a musical, focusing on fun rather than facts.
Jordan Peele Interrogates the Horror of Middle Class Obliviousness with Us
The depth and ambiguity of Us’s underlying metaphors is thought-provoking in a way that eclipses its contemporaries.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
This is a different kind of New York film.
Creed II (2018)
This is an underdog story with heart, as entertaining (if not as well-crafted) as Coogler’s predecessor.
