Senses of Cinema

Berenice Reynaud Senses of Cinema Oct 7, 2026 Coyula ups the ante by over-compositing the image and saturating the colours, creating a complex kaleidoscope, which in turns dictates the editing of the sequences in a kinetic, non-linear way. Go to Full Review Memories of Overdevelopment (2010) - - - -

David Melville Senses of Cinema Jan 13, 2026 When it comes to plumbing the depths of one especially ghastly marriage, the remake of Gaslight (directed by George Cukor) is an infinitely richer and more complex piece of work. Go to Full Review Gaslight (1944) 95% 90%

Adam Powell Senses of Cinema Sep 25, 2025 Hard Times is a stripped back and spare American depression chronicle, a controlled and almost zen tale of the desperate and lonely in 1930’s Louisiana. Go to Full Review Hard Times (1975) 71% 81%

Kevin B. Lee Senses of Cinema Apr 25, 2023 This is what I find to be of such value in [it]; that it risks offence for the sake of constructing a dialogue, one fraught with so many perils in the realms of politics, religion, cultures and sex, that it would not be worth it if it weren’t necessary. Go to Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% 65%

Catherine S. Cox Senses of Cinema May 20, 2022 This eccentric film offers an original, and many would say unique cinematic perspective on the psychology of terror and the elusiveness of clarity, both existential and empirical. Go to Full Review Vampyr (1932) 98% 82%

Barbora Bartunkova Senses of Cinema Mar 1, 2022 The Ascent is uncompromising in its representation of the cruel realities of war. Go to Full Review The Ascent (1977) 100% 92%

Shari Kizirian Senses of Cinema Mar 1, 2022 The breathless immediacy of [The Ascent,] about two Belarusian partisans during World War II, combines with a profound understanding of human vulnerability to make the film, Shepitko’s last, a masterpiece of war cinema. Go to Full Review The Ascent (1977) 100% 92%

Pedro Blas Gonzalez Senses of Cinema Feb 28, 2021 Nights of Cabiria is very much a study of the strength of will and resilience in light of the resistance that life and the world place in Cabiria's path. Go to Full Review Nights of Cabiria (1957) 100% 94%

Wheeler Winston Dixon Senses of Cinema Sep 7, 2020 Sold as a comedy, the film is anything but; Arzner views café society as a snake pit, in which people use and discard each other without a backward glance. Go to Full Review Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) 100% 60%

Eloise Ross Senses of Cinema Aug 27, 2019 Audry's film manages to explore complexities and subtleties in how women act in their relationships and in their professional spaces, precisely by allowing them an unresolvable ambiguity. Go to Full Review Olivia (1951) 100% 80%

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Jul 11, 2019 ...Atman maintains a tone of positive transformation, tenuous as it may be, through Pirjo's rigorous and patient observation of Jamana Lal's world weary face as he discovers love in the throes of grief. Go to Full Review Atman (1997) - - 61%

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Jul 11, 2019 ...A Wild Stream felt like a rejuvenating reprieve from the madness of the world, where cowboy bromances can enigmatically flourish on the glimmering seashores of Mexico before a looming camera held by a strong willed, visionary woman. Go to Full Review A Wild Stream (Una corriente salvaje) (2018) - - - -

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Jul 11, 2019 Wholly observational outside the occasional employment of Külliki Rannu as poetic narrator and 12 chapter cards that read as more mysterious than contextual, Mysterion is a staggeringly beautiful bit of filmmaking. Go to Full Review - - - -

James Magrini Senses of Cinema Jun 5, 2019 The film perfects Anger's use of myth, ceremony, and ritual. Go to Full Review Lucifer Rising (1972) - - 76%

Arthur Rankin Senses of Cinema Mar 4, 2019 An excellent critique of a specific historical moment in US history and reveals the flaws that were present in its belief system. Go to Full Review Splendor in the Grass (1961) 77% 90%

Cerise Howard Senses of Cinema Feb 7, 2019 A satirical, Buñuelian comedy of manners brimming over with pre-nuptial intrigue. Go to Full Review The Beast (1975) 71% 52%

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Dec 5, 2018 Neville's film proves that despite an aesthetic approach that mimics its subject's vintage gentility, if one is keen to read between the lines, politically profound ideas ... might be at play in even the most wholesome of places. Go to Full Review Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 97% 94%

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Dec 5, 2018 The play between past and present political predicaments of immigration, unionisation and corporate corruption piercingly resonate thanks to Greene's ingenious sense of staging... Go to Full Review Bisbee '17 (2018) 93% 60%

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Dec 5, 2018 Kinshasa Makambo daringly depicts the resistance as a fractured assemblage of discordant voices - including the filmmaker himself - at once forlorn and unfaltering. Go to Full Review Kinshasa Makambo (2018) 100% - -

Jordan M. Smith Senses of Cinema Dec 5, 2018 América reverberates with deep emotion as it explores the power and limits of caring for ailing loved ones on the homefront... Go to Full Review América (2018) 100% - -