This intentionally frustrating drama interrogates the ultimate purpose of health care.

I’ve avoided this film for years because it looks like such an obvious downer. And spoiler (not really): it is! But it’s also a very interesting look at the priorities within society and the healthcare system.

I think that an important aspect of this film is that Mr. Lazarescu is most likely dying. The “death” in the title is not necessarily meant to be interpreted as an avoidable one.…

This romance soars when its main couple shares the screen, and flops when they are apart.

This is a film that I went into with decently high expectations. It’s probably one of the most famous romances, to the point that other famous romance films have been inspired by it, at times explicitly. And so perhaps I had the bar set too high, but I was pretty underwhelmed.

On the technical front, this film is very well made. The staging of…

A neorealist approach to Christ’s life makes for a refreshingly human look at one of the most famous stories ever told.

I started watching this film about a year ago and just completely bounced off of it. I turned it off after about 15 minutes because I was totally failing to connect with it. I’m not sure what was different this time around, but I was captivated by the film from beginning to end.

The entire approach to the story…

An oddly flat exercise in true crime horror, notable for a handful of effective moments and a whole lot of inexplicably bad ones.

I don’t have Dan Olson’s soothing Canadian cadences, but you can imagine him saying, “What are you doing? Why . . . are you here?”. I find this film genuinely baffling, and if it weren’t based on actual murders, I’d probably find it rather amusing.

There are a few things that work, outnumbered though they are by…