Tag: Joe Murphy

We Summon the Darkness | Review

Heaven and Earth: Meyers Tackles Organized Religion with Droll Thriller Director Marc Meyers returns to the isolating terrors of the rural Midwest in a different...

Swallow | Review

On Body and Soul: Mirabella-Davis Gets Squeamish with Formidable Debut As much as it speaks to contemporary understandings of female agency, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ astute directorial...

Adam | 2019 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival Video Review

Trans Substantiate: Ernst Turns Back Time in Sincere, Flawed Trans Rom-Com “Lying is stupid and lonely,” says Margaret Qualley, a wearied queer woman towards the...

Swallow | 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Review

Tough to Swallow, in a Good Way: Davis Offers Big Gulp Feminist Thriller Carlo Mirabella Davis’ debut feature Swallow is a haunting study in gender politics in...

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Daaaaaali! | Review

Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive...

A Pain That I’m Used To: Metrograph Pictures Tables Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’

Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker...