Cineaste Magazine

Will DiGravio Cineaste Magazine May 8, 2026 Restless. Relentless. Resolved. All suitable words to describe the Lee Miller portrayed by Kate Winslet in Lee, a biopic directed by Ellen Kuras that places Miller and her camera squarely within the global antifascist cause that persists today. Go to Full Review Lee (2023) 67% - -

Will DiGravio Cineaste Magazine Mar 6, 2026 A film fully in Park’s singular style that cuts right at the core of what it means to be human in a time of rapid global, technological change. Go to Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% - -

Will DiGravio Cineaste Magazine Mar 6, 2026 Reichardt tells this 110-minute story with a pace bordering on slow cinema ... and it is spectacular. Go to Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 89% - -

Will DiGravio Cineaste Magazine Mar 6, 2026 Mendonça Filho’s work as a weaver of tales is astonishing. Go to Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% - -

Will DiGravio Cineaste Magazine Mar 6, 2026 A moving contemplation on times gone by. Go to Full Review Late Fame (2025) 94% - -

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine Feb 29, 2024 Triet’s movie is built on the central concept of what we interpret from what we see and hear -- the cinema’s essential elements -- establishing the foundation of what we then perceive as “the truth.” Go to Full Review Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% 90%

Gerald Peary Cineaste Magazine Oct 3, 2023 This is what the movie is finally about: bodies leaping upon each other, kicking and kneeing, trucks pushing other vehicles off the road, and nothing motivated. Go to Full Review White Line Fever (1975) 29% 54%

David Sterritt Cineaste Magazine Nov 11, 2021 Phantom is a fitting title for a story in which emotions are ruthless, motivations are slippery, and identity itself is dauntingly hard to pin down. This isn't exactly horror, but parts of it border on nightmare. Go to Full Review Phantom (1922) 43% 62%

David Sterritt Cineaste Magazine May 20, 2021 [It] doesn't have quite as much élan nowadays as, say, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Murnau's spectacular Faust, but retains enormous power as an exemplar of German Expressionism at its spooky, rambunctious best. Go to Full Review Waxworks (1924) - - 49%

David Sterritt Cineaste Magazine Mar 5, 2021 Politically, ethnographically, and cinematically incorrect, it's a cautionary specimen of exploitation film at its most shamelessly exploitative. Go to Full Review Ingagi (1930) - - - -

Graham Fuller Cineaste Magazine Nov 20, 2020 There are many reasons to praise Armando Iannucci's adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Personal History of David Copperfield...Iannucci's exuberant take on this classic Bildungsroman is doubly Dickensian... Go to Full Review The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) 92% 54%

David Sterritt Cineaste Magazine May 22, 2020 I mention Tavernier's varied background at the outset because his intimacy with every aspect of movie production, distribution, and exhibition shines through each installment of Journeys Through French Cinema. Go to Full Review My Journey Through French Cinema (2016) 100% 60%

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine May 22, 2020 The results are not just to thrust the past to the present, but to envelop the viewer in the thinking that defined that past. Go to Full Review An Officer and a Spy (2019) 78% 83%

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine Feb 25, 2020 When the history of this moment in world cinema is written, Parasite will take its place as the movie that got the moment right. Go to Full Review Parasite (2019) 99% - -

Graham Fuller Cineaste Magazine Sep 5, 2019 ... it amply demonstrates in microcosm the inherent barbarity of the colonizing of the island... Go to Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% 73%

Darragh O'Donoghue Cineaste Magazine Feb 28, 2019 Border, therefore, is inevitably diminished on a second or informed first viewing. That said, it is still an impressive piece of work. Go to Full Review Border (2018) 97% 76%

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine Feb 28, 2019 The movie singlehandedly upends decades of unimaginative habits by British filmmakers who have generally treated history as well-behaved pageants with period-perfect costumes and lavish settings. Go to Full Review The Favourite (2018) 93% 70%

Maria Garcia Cineaste Magazine Aug 21, 2018 Chasing Madoff takes ninety-one minutes and delivers nothing more than what it hopes to pass off as the story of an unsung, working-class hero. Go to Full Review Chasing Madoff (2011) 49% 43%

Maria Garcia Cineaste Magazine Aug 21, 2018 There is not much to admire in Young Adult in terms of originality in cinematography or production design. Go to Full Review Young Adult (2011) 80% 49%

Maria Garcia Cineaste Magazine Aug 21, 2018 What makes The House I Live In so potent is the filmmaker's sincerity. Despite a preference for sweeping statements and conclusions, he establishes palpable emotional connections to several of his subjects who are victims of the war on drugs. Go to Full Review The House I Live In (2012) 94% 85%