Ryan Swen

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 31, 2025 Much, much messier than Jude’s other recent work, Dracula nevertheless finds insight in its own madness, mirroring the wild world we live in, whether we like it or not. Go to Full Review Dracula (2025) 71% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 31, 2025 A reflection of a series of changes, fundamental shifts in perception that require radical alterations to capture them in imagistic form. Go to Full Review Resurrection (2025) 91% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 31, 2025 Linklater’s treatment of the early French New Wave and Breathless, while quite rosy and genial, feels entirely in keeping with Godard’s sense of play. Go to Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 31, 2025 Blue Moon uses what could be standard biopic trappings as a container for one of Linklater’s most potent explorations of time. Go to Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 28, 2025 What might set Videoheaven most apart from its other video essay brethren, however, is the clear urge to memorialize something that Perry sees as already being in the past. Go to Full Review Videoheaven (2025) 83% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 24, 2025 Many of these storylines are of sufficient interest that an entire (albeit shorter) documentary could be made about each of them, but Below the Clouds is most in thrall to the push-pull of the past and present. Go to Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 98% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Dec 24, 2025 The scale afforded here allows for the most vivid canvas Mendonça Filho has ever painted on. Go to Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Nov 21, 2025 Laxe’s film is in essence an examination of connections between the sacred and the earthly, each tied in accordance to a certain set of rules that must be divined through experience. Go to Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Oct 15, 2025 The film even appears to take place over the span of a few days, with a full day-night-day-night cycle, suggesting that to simply talk about one’s day in any detail at all itself takes more time than it does to live it. Go to Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Oct 15, 2025 Late Fame is, above all else, an often thrillingly imperfect film, one more open to the possibilities of total failure than Jones’s last film. Go to Full Review Late Fame (2025) 94% - -

Ryan Swen Variety Sep 24, 2025 At nearly three hours, “Kokuho” takes its time in covering the events of 50 years — ending, after its longest of many time jumps, in 2014 — but it remains engaging throughout, in no small part because of its ambivalent perspective toward its protagonist. Go to Full Review Kokuho (2025) 95% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 There is never any point at which the film is unaware of the distance that exists between it and everything it is depicting. Go to Full Review Grand Tour (2024) 91% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 Guiraudie establishes early on that there is much more on his mind than another tale of a h(a)unted man. Go to Full Review Misericordia (2024) 94% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 It’s possible to see Here as a film simultaneously highlighting and dismissing the unity of world. Go to Full Review Here (2024) 35% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 Here is a film that revels in imagination, in the direct images of its characters’ experiences and the thrumming richness of the world that surrounds them. Go to Full Review Here (2023) 95% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 Feels of a piece with Eyes of the Spider in its approach to violence and the numbing consequences of economic manipulation. Go to Full Review Cloud (2024) 93% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 The Serpent’s Path introduction of a more coherent throughline trades Serpent’s Path‘s haze of confusion—signified by the copious use of complex math problems—for the brutal, cold light of digital and two-faced interactions. Go to Full Review Serpent's Path (2024) 83% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 Chime, by contrast, is almost perversely committed to its evocation of the dread that has been his most widely beloved mode for so long. Go to Full Review Chime (2024) - - - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 Much of Caught by the Tides‘s extraordinary achievement rests in the way in which it manages to question every single scene that appears on screen, even as they frequently register with a grand jubilation. Go to Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 99% - -

Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5, 2025 Inside Out 2 is ultimately successful, in large part because, like in the first film, the embrace of a harmony and balance among the emotions is emphasized above all else. Go to Full Review Inside Out 2 (2024) 91% - -