“It’s such an easy word: kindness. It’s such a simple thing. It’s a very simple act to find that kindness in your heart.”
– Jonathan Butterell

I adored Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

Habit Habit is something of a 1990s Pulp Fiction–style throwback with female leads who find themselves navigating a True Romance–meets–Sister Act type narrative that is as unwieldy as it is oddly compelling.

The Night House grabbed me by the throat and slowly squeezed.

The Green Knight is an otherworldly tale told at a measured pace that doesn’t spoon-feed the viewer a single easy answer to any of its impenetrable psychoanalytical moralistic queries.

Szumowska and Englert have delivered something marvelously peculiar with Never Gonna Snow Again, and watching it with practically little foreknowledge of anything I was about to experience has been one of the more profoundly befuddling joys I’ve had this year.

“One of the great things about film, and storytelling in general, is that everything is relevant.”
– Wyatt Rockefeller

A quiet, introspectively sparse sci-fi thriller, Settlers makes a lasting impression.

Jakob’s Wife is one of the better films I’ve seen this year.