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Ming On (Mad Fate)

It all starts so promisingly: the first act of Ming On teases a hardboiled, wonderfully gruesome supernatural thriller…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

The Adults

Regrettably, the understated rewards of director Dustin Guy Defa’s The Adults come with a caveat – a potentially…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

The Survival of Kindness

A Black woman in a cage is carted into the desert by a group of men wearing gas…

By Selina Sondermann
Berlinale

BlackBerry

The first day of Competition films at the Berlinale culminates with a real banger after a lukewarm opening…

By Selina Sondermann
Berlinale

Reality

On 3rd June 2017, after grocery shopping, Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney) pulls up to her house where she…

By Selina Sondermann
Berlinale

Kill Boksoon

As demonstrated by the omnipresent Netflix logo kicking things off, South Korean action spectacle Kill Boksoon comes to…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

Mammalia

Camil is struggling with his place in the world – a world he perceives as dominated by women.…

By Selina Sondermann
Berlinale

Arturo a los 30 (About 30)

Are explanatory voiceovers in films taking the easy way out? Cinema is a visual medium, and yet, whether…

By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale

Perpetrator

Wayward teen Jonny (Kiah McKirnan) is sent away to live with a distant relative, Hildie (Alicia Silverstone), despite…

By Selina Sondermann