Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Lobster

  Yorgos Lanthimos

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos is not a fan of convention and insincerity. Dogtooth, the dark 2009 comedy that made him known around the wor...

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  The Forbidden Room

  Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  When The Forbidden Room, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's gleefully experimental, subconscious Freudian dream of a movie starts, a group of me...

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  Return of the Atom

  Directed by Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2015

  When Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola's socio-political enviro-doc, Return of the Atom, starts, it shows great promise. An archival on-screen...

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  Spear

  Stephen Page

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2015

  The Bangarra Dance Theatre is an indigenous Australian contemporary dance company known for producing a roster of wildly creative and cultu...

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  A Heavy Heart

  Thomas Stuber

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2015

  With A Heavy Heart, Thomas Stuber's second feature (his first if we use SAG rules), the German director has demonstrated a technical aptitu...

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  Les êtres chers

  Anne Émond

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2015

  Like Leolo, C'est pas moi, je le jure!, Mommy, Lost Song, Polytechnique and dozens of others, Anne Émond's Les êtres chers follows the Fren...

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  Sicario

  Denis Villeneuve

  PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2015

  Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve's seventh feature film — his second substantially budgeted American film — is an example of...

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  Koza

  Ivan Ostrochovský

  PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2015

  The titular Koza (Peter Baláz) is a former flyweight Olympic boxer living with his girlfriend Misa (Stanislava Bongilajová) in a dilapidate...