Tag: murder

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At precisely eight hours, Kevin Jerome Everson's Park Lanes (LFF 2015) is a work of intense situational continuity, observing the ...

From Johnny Mnemonic (1995) to eXistenZ (1999), the '90s vogue for tactile tech thrillers has now been memeified out of all ...

Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin (2013) begins in media res, advancing with the tension of stretching a coiled slinky into garrotting ...

With remarkable confidence for his feature debut, László Nemes has located a cinematic language to grapple with the urgency of ...

The first floor of the apartment block, through which all tenants must pass, is where the crime took place. On ...

Following Camille Claudel 1915, his gruelling, etiolated study of the sculptor's institutionalisation at Montdevergues asylum, French (provoc)auteur Bruno Dumont has ...

Like Godard's Une Femme Mariée (1964), Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (Le chambre bleue) begins with fragments of an unknown woman; her ...

The Canyons is ostensibly about the attempts of a pampered and sociopathic movie producer (James Deen) to finance a no-budget ...

A meandering Filipino 'Crime and Punishment'  Filipino director Lav Diaz is of the "slow cinema" school of art filmmaking, whose icon is ...