Tag Archives: Aki Kaurismäki

Film reviews 91: “Game Night”, “A Quiet Place”, “Unsane”, “Ready Player One”, “Blockers”, “Half Nelson”, “Miss Stevens”, “Silence”, “Heaven”, “Involuntary”, “Molly’s Game” and 17 others…

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Nick Chen

This month: “All That Jazz” (pictured above), “Beats Being Dead”, “The Belko Experiment”, “Blissfully Yours”, “Blockers”, “Les Diaboliques”, “Game Night”, “Half Nelson”, “Heaven”, “Heaven Knows What”, “Involuntary”, “Isle of Dogs”, “Just Go With It”, “Keeping Up With the Joneses”, “Lights … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Aki Kaurismäki, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ben Safdie, Bob Fosse, Christian Petzold, Denis Villeneuve, Dennis Dugan, Greg McLean, Greg Mottola, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jeffrey Blitz, John Francis Daley, John Krasinski, Jonathan Goldstein, Josh Gordon, Joshua Safdie, Julia Hart, Kay Cannon, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ruben Östlund, Ryan Fleck, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Tom Tykwer, Wes Anderson, Will Spech | 1 Comment

Film reviews 89: “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, “The Mummy”, “Dunkirk”, “Song to Song”, “The House”, “Until the End of the World” and 5 others…

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Nick Chen

This month: “The Aviator’s Wife”, “Day Night Day Night”, “Dunkirk”, “The House”, “Mikey and Nicky”, “The Mummy”, “Mysterious Object at Noon”, “Song to Song”, “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, “Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana”, and “Until the End of the World” (pictured … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Alex Kurtzman, Andrew Jay Cohen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Éric Rohmer, Christopher Nolan, Elaine May, Jon Watts, Julia Loktev, Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders | 1 Comment

Film reviews 87: “Alien: Covenant”, “Snatched”, “Sandy Wexler”, “Rules Don’t Apply”, “The Discovery”, “Mindhorn” and 13 others…

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Nick Chen

This month: “Alien: Covenant”, “Bed and Board”, “La Ciénaga”, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”, “The Discovery” “The Final Girls”, “Ghost”, “Good Kids”, “The Man Without a Past”, “Mindhorn”, “Rules Don’t Apply”, “Russian Dolls”, “Sandy Wexler”, “Snatched”, “Shadow Dancer”, “A Simple … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Carl Reiner, Cédric Klapisch, Charlie McDowell, Chris McCoy, Françoius Truffaut, James Marsh, Jerry Zucker, Jonathan Levine, Katell Quillévéré, Lucrecia Martel, Nacho Vigalondo, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi, Sean Foley, Steven Brill, Todd Strauss-Schulson, Warren Beatty | 1 Comment

Film reviews 81: “Captain America: Civil War”, “Mustang”, “Special Correspondents”, “Rosetta”, “Before Sunrise” and 18 others…

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Nick Chen

This month: “Attack the Block”, “Bad Words”, “Before Midnight”, “Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset”, “Calvary”, “Captain America: Civil War”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Escape From Tomorrow”, “Everybody Wants Some!!”, “Goodbye to All That”, “Hannibal Takes Edinburgh”, “I’m Still Here”, “The Iron Giant”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged "Andrei Tarkovsky", Aki Kaurismäki, Angus MacLachlan, Anthony Russo, Brad Bird, Bryon Howard, Casey Affleck, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Don Cheadle, Jason Bateman, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Joachim Trier, Joe Cornish, Joe Russo, John Michael McDonagh, Luc Dardenne, Michael Dowse, Randy Moore, Rich Moore, Richard Linklater, Ricky Gervais, Ryan Ferguson, Stanley Donen | 1 Comment

Film reviews 80: “The Jungle Book”, “10 Cloverfield Lane”, “Batman v Superman”, “The Son’s Room”, “Search Party”, “The Gift” and 25 others…

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Nick Chen

This month: “Ashby”, “An Autumn Tale”, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, “Beyond the Lights” “Closet Monster”, “Couple in a Hole”, “Drifting Clouds” (pictured above), “Festival”, “Field of Dreams”, “The Gift”, “Hail, Caesar!”, “Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party”, “I Wish”, “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Aki Kaurismäki, Annie Griffin, Éric Rohmer, Ben A. Williams, Catherine Corsini, Dan Trachtenberg, David Trueba, Ethan Coen, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Guillaume Canet, Hirokazu Koreeda, Jack Van Dormael, Jeff Nichols, Joel Coen, Joel Edgerton, John Boorman, Jon Favreau, Jorge Torres-Torres, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Nanni Moretti, Phil Alden Robinson, Scot Armstrong, Sebastián Silva, Stéphane Lafleur, Stephen Dunn, Tom Geens, Tony McNamara, Zack Snyder | 1 Comment