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Where we answer the question, "What did you see this year that you liked?
Where we answer the question, "What did you see this year that you liked?
I don’t know what to say to get you to believe me - this film, if it is released this year, and if God is just and real, will be the biggest film of the year. Theatre Kids, Actors, Film Buffs, Horror Fans, Rom Com fans, Melissa Barerra Fans
No! No!!!!! La Chimera was about property rights and extraction. I thought we all got it? It was pretty clear??? to me??? You know…. the juxtaposition of the abandoned Station and the unopened Graves? That potential through hard work can be negative and positive too? The police not being able
4. Bones and All Too long and too narratively messy, but it makes up for it in very simple and well-crafted visual storytelling. The performances between Chalamet and Russell seem to be talking past each other. Dialogue was pretty atrocious, I can’t work out why. Costuming, Pacing, Copious amounts
by Umnia El-Neil4. Bones and All Too long and too narratively messy, but it makes up for it in very simple and well-crafted visual storytelling. The performances between Chalamet and Russell seem to be talking past each other. Dialogue was pretty atrocious, I can’t work out why. Costuming, Pacing, Copious amounts
by Umnia El-NeilI don’t know what to say to get you to believe me - this film, if it is released this year, and if God is just and real, will be the biggest film of the year. Theatre Kids, Actors, Film Buffs, Horror Fans, Rom Com fans, Melissa Barerra Fans
by Umnia El-NeilNo! No!!!!! La Chimera was about property rights and extraction. I thought we all got it? It was pretty clear??? to me??? You know…. the juxtaposition of the abandoned Station and the unopened Graves? That potential through hard work can be negative and positive too? The police not being able
by Umnia El-NeilThere is something so fulfilling about being right, and there, and on it, and around, and paying attention. I have been a fan of Linklater’s for a while now, and especially his approach to filmmaking resonates with me deeply. There is, simultaneously, a seriousness and irreverence that means he
by Umnia El-NeilWhen I first watched the trailer for Challengers, I only got about 5 minutes of happiness and glee in before I had two thoughts. 1. A film with a black girl being desired by two hot white guys? This kissing scene is probably the only scene where that happens. This
by Umnia El-NeilTo commemorate ‘Strange Way of Life’ now being available on Netflix, I’m bringing back my review from my old Substack, for your reading pleasure. Though this review will contain spoilers, it will not include a synopsis, so it will make the most sense only after you have seen the
by Umnia El-NeilThere’s something really powerful and a little emotional about sitting in a cinema screening room surrounded by Old Lesbians, in their two’s. At BFI Flare, I found myself in such a situation, watching two stellar Documentaries, back to back. I will give each of them a moment, and
by Umnia El-NeilIf I admit I was delirious, walking into that Picturehouse that day, then I must concede also that it was a very, very weird day for me - the first of a week of them, all of my own doing. That morning, I had read something that I knew was
by Umnia El-Neil