Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Best Film in Years
DIRECTED BY HIROKAZU KORE-EDA/JAPANESE/2019
I don't know if Hirokazu Kore-Eda was directly influenced by the I...
M. Night Shyamalan's Sequel to Unbreakable is Worth the Wait!
DIRECTED BY: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN/2019
After 19 years, and the surprise tie-in to 2016's ...
Ethan Hawke Leads One of the Best Films of the Year
DIRECTOR: PAUL SCHRADER/2018
In college, I suffered from an acute depression. I’m not sure if tha...
DIRECTED BY: MIMI LEDER/2018
Daniel Stiepleman, who was the screenwriter for the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg-based film, On the Basis of Sex, had a unique p...
WOAH, who saw that Golden Globes show last weekend? I think I need another advil.
Happy 2019! Zekefilm contributors have already done a fabulous job sharing...
DIRECTED BY: NEIL BURGER/2019
For most people, The Upside will be a funny, inspirational look at how a con man takes the unlikely job helping a rich qu...
The Best of a Bleak Year
Confession time: I dragged my feet writing my Best Of list this year. The reasons are threefold:
This is one of my favorite ...
This movie, layered and memorable, played the Directors Fortnight portion of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival before making the festival circuit that year and into 2018. Though its obscurity is unfortunate, meaning that Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts won’t appear on very many year-end Best Films lists, it is nevertheless deserving of more as one of the outstanding cinema accomplishments of the previous several years.
