Author: jose

Life isn’t sugarcoated here, only drenched in blood.

Director Benedict Sanderson doesn’t shy away from the occasinal dramatic flourish.

A thoughtful but rather thin documentary about the ethics and legality of Generative AI.

Operates like a ghost story, complete with a haunted house, but the ghosts aren’t supernatural. The ghost is history. 

Admirable work from Flaherty, shining a light on the greed that mostly fuels these so-called wellness centers.

“Seeds” has a tactile intimacy that’s incredibly powerful, placing these ordinary people in an almost timeless continuum of seemingly ordinary behavior that becomes extraordinary in memory, or through the eyes of a camera.

The animators pack so many enriching details into their adaptation that even the most incidental scene feels consequential.

The ideas that the film prompts, coupled with Foster’s nuanced performance, make for a compelling enough character study.

This is the kind of staple on basic cable channels like TNT that old men like to rail about not getting made anymore.

It doesn’t take a detective to see that the goal here is pure profit, not artistry.