Cold Sweat: Important But Falls ShortBy Hamidreza Nassiri06/28/20193 Mins Read Cold Sweat is one of those films that is right out of newspaper pages, or in this age, right out…
What happened to you Nadine Labaki? A tasteful Caramel served on MUBIBy Bijan Tehrani05/20/20193 Mins Read This not a film critique, this is a love letter to a film. I just finished watching Caramel on MUBI…
Sly, a political comedy from Iranian cinemaBy Bijan Tehrani05/17/20193 Mins Read Kamal Tabrizi’s Sly (Marmouz) is an entertaining and clever political satire, an uncommon genre from Iranian cinema. The only other…
Cold Case Hammarskjiöld, Documenting the Undocumented Genocide?By Hamidreza Nassiri04/05/20193 Mins Read Right out of the theater and both hyped up and disturbed by this important film. A great work of investigative…
Slut In A Good WayBy World Cinema Reports' Editors03/26/20194 Mins Read When Charlotte (Marguerite Bouchard) gets dumped by her longtime boyfriend after he reveals that he’s gay, her immediate reaction is…
Lovely Junks, reviewBy Shirin Jahed03/08/20193 Mins Read The entire story takes place in less than a day, and in one location, in a middle-aged woman’s house, where…
PIG – A Brilliant Dark Comedy on Society’s Destruction of IntellectualsBy Hamidreza Nassiri03/05/20196 Mins Read A group of young girls argue with each other on what they’ve seen and done on Instagram as they walk…
What She Said: The Art of Pauline KaelBy World Cinema Reports' Editors02/20/20194 Mins Read Rob Garver’s documentary on Pauline Kael is not just a portrait of a single personality, nor an elegy for the…
NEVER LOOK AWAY, a must-see for this timeBy Hamidreza Nassiri02/17/20198 Mins Read Never look away is, first and foremost, the story of an artist who struggles to find his voice under the…
Border film review-uncompromisingly artistic and fascinatingBy World Cinema Reports' Editors02/15/20193 Mins Read ASKED about the movie we’d just seen, one patron suggested there was ‘a lot to digest’ – wow, did she…