Alex Saveliev

The Sadness

By Alex Saveliev | August 2021

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Holy fucking shit. Brace yourselves. Rob Jabbaz’s brutal, breathless Taiwanese horror splatter fest The Sadness is decidedly…

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Holy fucking shit. Brace yourselves. Rob Jabbaz’s brutal, breathless Taiwanese horror splatter fest The Sadness is...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! "There are no meanings," a character proclaims in Valentina De Amicis and Riccardo Spinotti's abstract...

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Emma Dante's heartfelt The Macaluso Sisters traces the lives of four female siblings after the tragic loss of the fifth one. Clearly a deeply personal...

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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Giant manta rays boast the largest brains of any fish studied so far. They use that power to distinguish between...

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Joshua Leonard's dramedy Fully Realized Humans tackles relatively heavy subjects with a light but deft touch. The feature's laid-back, lo-fi,...

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NEW TO THEATERS! Sabrina Doyle's feature debut, the blue-collar dramatic love story Lorelei, is not perfect. It takes a while to find its pacing, and some...

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I expected so much more from director Dan Mazer's The Exchange. Unfortunately, the man who wrote such hits as Borat and worked on Da Ali G Show sails...

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With all the important recent sociopolitical movements and consequent paradigm shifts – women's rights, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA activism, to name a...

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NOW IN THEATERS! M. Night Shyamalan's latest cinematic gift to audiences, the mind-fuck simply and enigmatically titled Old, is hysterical on several...

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NEW TO HULU! Uproarious. Disturbing. Melancholic. Shrewd. All adjectives that the marketing teams behind Andrew Gaynord’s terrific dark comedy All My...

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