Our rating for Roadrunner: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “While Neville’s exploration of the demons in Bourdain’s life provides a more rounded figure of the man, humanising him to this documentary audience and proving that he was more than just a figurehead of a successful badass chef, one also walks away from the documentary with a sense that Neville…

OUR RATING FOR IN THE HEIGHTS: ✰✰✰✰ — “When taking into account everything that In the Heights strives to be and everything it fails to achieve, the overall sensation one is left with is the experience one has when going to the grocery store when hungry; you get some of the things you actually needed, but you also…

OUR RATING FOR DANZÓN: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “At the beginning, the film’s narrative could have focused on anyone in the sea of people crowding the dance floor. By the end, it is made clear through Novaro’s camera work that Danzón was always about Julia, despite her story being nudged in its direction by way of Carmelo, acting…

OUR RATING FOR LAW OF DESIRE: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “Almodovar challenges his audience to avoid not only film genre categorisation, but also gender and sexual labeling, major themes of this film. . . Just as Almodovar’s characters freely exist as overly-dramatic, passionate, emotionally honest, and raw, so too is his film rebelliously undefined.” Pedro Almodovar’s Law of Desire is…

OUR RATING FOR A THOUSAND CUTS: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “A Thousand Cuts beseeches its audience to realise that world-changing events are happening around them and that they begin in the smallest and most insidious ways; and what is most frightening, we realise by the end of this documentary, is that these changes have already happened.” Ramona S. Díaz’s 2020…

OUR RATING FOR THE FIGHT: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “This is a documentary that manages to do what seems to be impossible in a world that divides families, denies people their basic human rights, and attempts to discount and invalidate us: it inspires hope.” Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, and Eli B. Despres’ 2020 documentary, The Fight, is a film…

OUR RATING FOR BREATHLESS: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “Godard’s Breathless is more than a mere inversion of the Hollywood film noir genre. This film structurally creates for itself a language of dissonance through paradoxes which are never resolved in the film; the nonsensical cuts and the indefinable male protagonist that appears to have certain traits only for them…

OUR RATING FOR BLACK GIRL: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “Through its cinematic composition and visual imagery Black Girl represents two unique cultures, both refusing to sacrifice their cultural, and individual, identity and soul to conformity to either society.” Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl is a French-Senegalese film which depicts the glaring differences between two cultures and a personal representation of…

OUR RATING FOR EUROPA EUROPA: ✰✰✰✰✰ — “In this film, Holland’s editing and camera work create a style of film wherein events occur so fast as scenes are made up of shots which take place in such short bursts, that one barely has time to register what is happening. . . This chaotic style of filmmaking parallels…