Alex Saveliev

Faith

By Alex Saveliev | January 2021

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 powerhouse central…

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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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Hot on the heels of Ron Howard's The Hillbilly Elegy comes Thomas Smith's Backwoods, another cautionary (read: misguided) tale about the murderous...

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Ah, the life of an aspiring artist! The constant search for validation, the industry's suffocating superficiality, the clinging to the belief that your art...

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"In 2015, more than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden," announces the title card of Markus Castro's Ghabe, a drama that's as powerful as it is...

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Filmmaker Steve Collins has issues with humanity. He invites you to hear him out in the surreal tragicomedy, I've Got Issues, an anthology of...

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It's challenging to pinpoint filmmaker Boaz Yakin's style. As a writer and director, he's responsible for films as varied as the...

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A coming-of-age (and out-of-the-closet) story set against ongoing political turmoil, Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy manages to side-step melodrama but doesn't...

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