Marjorie Estiano is supremely watchable in this woozy Brazilian chiller, which fails to spring into life. ★★★☆☆ It’s been a particularly strong year for Brazilian cinema. Festival audiences paid due respect to films like The Secret Agent and I’m Still Here, the latter of which won Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars, and Hotel […]

The Carpenter’s Son, Lofty Nathan’s sophomore feature, sounds promising on paper: Nicolas Cage portrays Joseph with all the typical Cage mannerisms, and a teenage Jesus has a fistfight with Satan herself. But the execution is so tedious that it makes this 95-minute film feel like forty days and forty nights. ★★☆☆☆ The last decade of […]

This latest retelling of the Nuremberg trials packs a punch and delivers some memorable performances, but ultimately fails in its delivery. ★★★☆☆ Nuremberg, written and directed by James Vanderbilt, is the latest retelling of the events following the end of the Second World War, when the major world powers confronted the full magnitude of the […]