Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “The Assessment” & “Road Diary”

Posted September 16, 2024 by Mitch Salem

THE ASSESSMENT (no distrib); It seems initially as though Fleur Fortune’s feature directing debut The Assessment will be easy to peg. The script, by John Donnelly and the duo credited as “Mrs and Mr Thomas”, appears to fall neatly into the subcategory of sci-fi as social commentary a la The Handmaid’s Tale. In a […]

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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Past Lives,” “Fairyland” & “Infinity Pool”

Posted January 30, 2023 by Mitch Salem

PAST LIVES (A24): The playwright Celine Song makes an impressive feature writing/directing debut with the lovely, eloquent Past Lives. The film is sort of the opposite of Sliding Doors and all of the multiversal entertainment we’re showered with these days. Rather than allowing Nora (Greta Lee), Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) and Arthur (John Magaro) […]

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