★★★☆☆ One is hard pressed to believe that many in the audience for an ostensibly anti-war film would require persuading of war’s evils. If anything, they may be seeking a fleeting grasp of the opposite impression; behind the many layers of safe remove provided by the cinema screen, and by way of seductively immersive filmmaking […]

Set in an impoverished district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian director Zoljargal Purevdash’s first feature portrays a young teenager striving for a better future thanks to his talent in physics. Purevdash gently tells the tale of forgotten people in her home neighbourhood, exploring and exposing its socio-ecological issues. ★★★★☆ Uzii is an adolescent living in the modest […]

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing cash. Blackmail. Violent deaths. For a seemingly lifeless town, there’s a lot going on in LaRoy, Texas.  ★★★★☆ Ray (John Magaro) is a man living a simple life, married to the local beauty pageant queen and working at his family hardware store alongside his brother, Junior (Matthew Del […]