Reviews include Heretic, Blitz, and Bird.
TFCA Friday – Week of October 13th, 2017
October 13, 2017
Welcome to TFCA Friday, a weekly round-up of film reviews and articles by TFCA critics.
Reviews and features by: Peter Howell (PH), Gilbert Seah (GS), Radheyan Simonpillai (RS), Nathalie Atkinson (NA), Barry Hertz (BH), Jim Slotek (JS), Karen Gordon (KG), Brian D. Johnson (BDJ), and Chris Knight (CK).
Opening this Week
78/52 (dir. Alexandre O. Philippe)
“One of the best, pleasurable and most insightful documentaries on Master of Suspense’s techniques” — GS
“It may lose the attention of the semi-interested, but it’s a worthwhile buzz for bona fide film fans” — JS
“The film only stumbles, ironically, in fortifying the very male gaze Hitchcock himself was attempting to deconstruct” — BH, including a feature interview with the film’s director
BPM (120 Battements Par Minute) (dir. Robin Campillo)
“Full of life… A film that deserves to be angry for the fact that the privilege of living for many has almost been taken completely away” — GS
The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker)
“Alexis Zabe’s rapturous cinematography reminds us that magic is where you find it. You don’t need a golden ticket to Mickey’s kingdom, although you can see it from here” — PH, featuring an interview with star Willem Dafoe
“Sympathy can melt like ice cream in the Floridian sun when there’s so little context to be had” — CK
“A tiny adventure of absorbing wonder” — BH
The Foreigner (dir. Martin McDonald)
Goodbye Christopher Robin (dir. Simon Curtis)
“Gets a little lost in its own hundred-acre wood” — CK
Happy Death Day (dir. Christopher Landon)
“Not meant to be taken seriously” — GS
The Limehouse Golem (dir. Juan Carlos Medina)
“The Golem is the audience that relishes violence,” director Juan Carlos Medina tells Nathalie Atkinson in a chat about London, The Limehouse Golem, and the fine art of murder
“Simultaneously too complicated and too simple” — GS
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (dir. Peter Landesman)
“A Watergate explainer that doesn’t explain too much” — BH
The Meyerowitz Stories: New and Collected (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (dir. Angela Robinson)