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Author: Bryan Loomis Maborosi is a remarkably assured debut film with a deft touch about almost everything it does. Long stretches pass...

Author: Bryan Loomis If you were to try to map this to a three act structure (which like, why even try) I think you’d have to say the...

Author: Bryan Loomis Confidence is a hell of a drug. That's the core of the premise of A Different Man. Edward has facial tumors and no...

Author: Bryan Loomis When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is a stunning film about the work conditions and social pressures that a bar hostess...

Author: Bryan Loomis I'm lost. Such is the human condition. I love a late career masterpiece, and Kurosawa's is one of the very best....

Author: Bryan Loomis The Katakuris purchase an inn in a scenic area hoping that development and guests will follow. This is a pretty...

Author: Bryan Loomis Chizuko’s Younger Sister is a coming of age movie where grief casts a long shadow. Mika is approaching the age that...

Author: Bryan Loomis There’s a moment about halfway through Tokyo Sonata where it lost me, and then it got me back again. There’s a time...

Author: Bryan Loomis Don't Look Up was a terrible movie, but one of the things it attempted is actually among the most appealing tools of...

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu treats the Nosferatu story as IP with no desire to adapt or understand what makes the source work. It's just...