March 22, 2010
A reviewer compared City of God to Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) and many parallels could be made between the two. As they both fall into the genre of gangster films, they depict violence in a raw, uninhibited way, in a realist fashion. City of God, with its documentary-style aesthetic—camera shakes, voice-over narration, etc., uses that realism to emphasize its story’s […]
April 20, 2010
Haiti Chérie is a brutal film and stirs up in its spectator, as it should and as did its predecessors, a desire for change.
September 7, 2011
Although Hark makes good use of his limited budget, Dectective Dee’s script feels convoluted, while the actors perform as if they’re in a campy picture.
March 26, 2010
What’s most interesting about A Silent Love is its comical approach to its subject. There is much in common with the tongue-in-cheek of Mexican dramas.
November 28, 2010
Accident devolves into a too simplistic whodunit, where the director tries to dazzle us with his technical mastery and film knowledge.