2022 BEST FILMS - Top 10
It goes without saying that the following list is solely based upon my personal taste, being my own individual evaluation. Perhaps the...
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Jack Salvadori
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Venice #79: “Blonde” Review
The 2-hour-and-45-minute itch It seems to be a contemporary trend: who gets closer is the best. Almost an interactive game, place a frame...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Venice #79- “The Whale” Review
Darren Aronofsky does it again- take a very sad personal story, a beloved washed-out actor, and offer him the role of a lifetime in one...
Jack Salvadori
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "Crimes of the Future"
“Where is the art in tumorous growth?”, wonders a perplexed character in David Cronenberg’s latest cinematic fatigue, pretty much...
Jack Salvadori
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "Holy Spider"
Saeed is a family man - a caring father, devoted husband, and occasional serial killer. Yes, a merciless executioner who hunts his prey...
Jack Salvadori
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75- "Triangle of Sadness"
It started with a spheric avalanche rolling into a square, and finally culminating with a triangle. We’re talking about Ruben Östlund’s...
Jack Salvadori
- May 21, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "EO"
Balthazar enters the void in Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, following the POV of a donkey as he embarks into a road movie looking for.. Freedom?...
Jack Salvadori
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
Cannes #75 - "Coupez!"
The Trauma Show - And so it began, the 75th edition of the most prestigious cinematic rendezvous in the world. To represent such a...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Venice 78: “The Last Duel” Review
#Me(dieval)Too Ridley Scott likes period movies. He has indulged in directing them throughout his career, and after "Kingdom of Heaven"...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Venice 78: “Competencia Oficial”
In Gaston Duprat & Mariano Cohn’s previous film, The Distinguished Citizen (2016), the Nobel Prize author briefly mentions an intriguing...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 13, 2021
- 1 min
Venice 78: “America Latina”
ParasItaly The opening, environmental shots of nature in what looks like a forest are interrupted by a brutalist, concrete villa. A...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Venice 78: “Life of Crime” review
“What is going on? Life is going on.” I can’t say that Jon Alpert’s latest documentary is a comedy. It is rather a bleak and brutal piece...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
Venice 78: "Freaks Out" Review
And so Italian cinema has finally discovered CGI Unfortunately, Freaks Out confirmed my cheerless suspicion: Gabriele Mainetti is nothing...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Venice 78: "Last Night in Soho" Review
Once Upon a Time in Soho Edgar Wright’s long awaited Last Night in Soho explores the darker side of the alluring sixties. Aspiring...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
Venice 78: "Full Time" Review
A frenetic, spiralling glimpse into everyday infernal routines. Every cinematic tool is employed by director Eric Gravel to achieve the...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 5, 2021
- 2 min
Venice 78: "Spencer" Review
The indiscreet charm of the royals. Pablo Larrain is back with the companion piece to his critically acclaimed 2016 “Jackie”. Leading...
Jack Salvadori
- Sep 3, 2021
- 1 min
Venice 78: "107 Mothers" Review
The Borscht Redemption It’s really difficult to draw a line between the fictional scenes and the documentary ones in 107 Mothers. Peter...
Jack Salvadori
- Jul 17, 2021
- 2 min
Cannes #74- ‘Vortex’ Review
Gaspar Noé’s Amour Cult director Gaspar Noé has premiered his most moving work to date which, in an out of competition slot, instantly...
Jack Salvadori
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
Cannes 74: ‘Memoria’ Review
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first foreign language film is yet another example of a director who does not function outside of his...
Jack Salvadori
- Jul 14, 2021
- 1 min
Cannes 74: ‘A Hero’ Review
Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero is a tale of innocent dishonesty, required by the adverse circumstances in which Rahim finds himself entangled....
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