T Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann The Amusement Park: Romero’s metamorphosis The Amusement Park (George A. Romero, 2019)
M Categories Commentary Ruairí McCann Martin Eden: a song of experience cut on the lathe of history Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden fuses avant-garde methods with classical filmmaking form for a radical, accessible high drama.
S Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue is a literary documentary bound for the fields, the seacoast, and the vicissitudes of time Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke, 2020, China)
M Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann Mafia epic The Traitor examines theatrical machismo and Italian identity The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio, 2019, Italy)
T Categories Commentary Ruairí McCann The people’s art: Wakaliwood and the action movie as a democratised working-class expression Crazy World, the newest film from Uganda’s Wakaliwood studio, entrenches them as one of the most exciting loci of contemporary cinema.
T Categories Criticism Eureka Ruairí McCann Throw Down is a formally adventurous judo musical in salute of Kurosawa Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004, Hong Kong)
R Categories Criticism Netflix Ruairí McCann Rote direction and extraneous world-building hampers dystopian heist movie Time to Hint Time to Hunt (Yoon Sung-hyun, 2020, South Korea)
K Categories Criticism Eureka Ruairí McCann Kwaidan is an uncanny anthology of Japanese ghost tales that mixes experimental with traditional forms Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 1964)
I Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann INVENTING THE FUTURE Isiah Medina’s long-awaited second feature brings a new vision for the future, and for cinema
B Categories Criticism MUBI Ruairí McCann BACURAU Colonial violence finds new form in this fresh Brazilian Western
T Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann TOMMASO Willem Dafoe juggles the responsibilities of family, recovery and the art life in Abel Ferrara’s latest work of autofiction.
T Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann THE HOTTEST AUGUST Documentarian Brett Story is out to map the storm and stress of modern life with her disorientating third feature
H Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann HONEYLAND Community, exploitation and beekeeping feature in this Macedonian observational documentary
T Categories Criticism Netflix Ruairí McCann THE KING King Henry V comes of age in this cold and stiff Shakespeare adaptation starring Timothée Chalamet
T Categories Criticism Ruairí McCann THE DAY SHALL COME Chris Morris returns with a botched satire on terror hysterics and police brutality
