The pacing and focus of this film is just not where it needs to be. 3.6/10
Tag: <span>genre: drama</span>
I’m still not sure if Chinese Chocolate has enough WLW to qualify for this site. The film is entirely a prelude to a lesbian relationship. 5.1/10
Showing beautiful women in a way that doesn’t feel overtly objectifying or gross is way, way too low of a bar for me to call this a good movie. 4.3/10
Director Christopher Sandler drops you into his character’s head from moment one and keeps you there the whole time. And he makes this achievement of characterization look so damn easy. 7.6/10
There’s nothing about this movie that would make me recommend it specifically over so many similar movies that are more unique in some way or other. 4.7/10
This movie is like they put a list of sad things that could happen in an average, every day life into a hat. And then they picked every single one of them to put in the movie. 5.4/10
Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of my Dreams is one of those successfully emotional movies that utilizes a very personal story to invite its audience to a different time, place and lived experience. 7.3/10
Palitan’s attempts to be more than a silly piece of softcore might have doomed it. So much of the story does not mesh with the film’s detours into sex scenes. 3.1/10
Because there’s so little representation, This Place felt the need to have their characters hold up and represent their entire cultures onscreen. And that’s simply too much to ask of an intimate, 87 minute film. 5.1/10
The Five Devils has a somewhat absurd premise that quality visuals and the always excellent Adèle Exarchopoulos really bolsters. These quality elements help sell this magical realist story about the bisexual agenda: adultery, acrobatics and arson. 7.2/10