Alex Saveliev

Don’t Tell a Soul

By Alex Saveliev | January 2021

Alex McAulay’s Don’t Tell a Soul defines “guilty pleasure.” I do not believe the grim, monochrome film was intended as such. I believe that…

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Alex McAulay's Don't Tell a Soul defines "guilty pleasure." I do not believe the grim, monochrome film was intended as such. I believe that McAulay...

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"Does it make any sense to you?" a character in writer/ director Michael Glover's 36 Husbands asks, reading a script. "We gotta talk to the writers....

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NOW ON NETFLIX! Director George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom blew me away. What a joy it is to experience a film so fervently impassioned and...

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Filmmaker Renji Philip has clearly seen his share of Terrence Malick films. In his romantic drama The Wake of Light, the camera "becomes" the wind,...

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Once in a blue moon, a film comes along that's both immaculately produced and oddly detached. On the one hand, Woo Min-ho's historical espionage...

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127 Hours meets 47 Meters Down in Joachim Hedén's succinct, nail-biting survival story Breaking Surface. Substitute Utah's sun-scorched rocks with a...

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Eli Daughdrill's somber drama Faith is so assured and atmospheric it's hard to believe it's the writer/director's feature-length debut. He coaxes a...

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"Do you believe in God?" a psychiatrist asks Mirjam, the young protagonist of Jorunn Myklebust Syversen's probing Norwegian drama Disco. "I have to," she...

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NOW IN VIRTUAL CINEMAS! Max Landis – son of horror maestro, John – has had a patchy screenwriting career. It began on a high note with the ridiculously...

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It's fuc*ing difficult to make a movie, especially when you have no budget. This shouldn't come as news to anyone, yet with the deluge of quality content...

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