This new documentary looks at the history of the Free Jazz movement and how it resonates to this very day.
Theatrical Film Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Toronto International Film Festival 2021: Dispatch One
From an afrofuturist musical to a coming of age discovery, we take a look at the first few days of TIFF 2021.
Joshua Reviews Matias Pineiro’s Isabella [Theatrical Review]
Pineiro's latest is another entrancing riff on the works of William Shakespeare, this time with a touch of emotionally shattering color theory thrown in for good measure.
Fantasia International Film Festival 2021: Dispatch Three
This final dispatch finds us heading to Fantasia's retrospective sidebar, as well as diving into one of the festival's most exciting horror discoveries.
Fantasia International Film Festival 2021: Dispatch One
This first of four dispatches from this year's Fantasia International Film Festival looks at an American indie, a massive blockbuster and a pair of incredible new documentaries.
Joshua Reviews Hogir Hirori’s Sabaya [Theatrical Review]
This new documentary from MTV Documentary Films and director Hogir Hirori is a thrilling, often chilling, look into the life of women kidnapped into slavery, and the volunteers willing to risk their lives to save them.
Joshua Reviews Jean-Paul Salome’s Mama Weed [Theatrical Review]
This new crime thriller takes a thinly drawn premise, pairs it with an ace Isabelle Huppert performance and what results is a fun, if forgettable, B-movie.
Joshua Reviews C.W. Winter And Anders Edstrom’s The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) [Theatrical Review]
This epic-length look into the life of a worker in a remote village in Japan is a gorgeous, often haunting rumination on time.
Joshua Reviews Francois Ozon’s Summer Of 85 [Theatrical Review]
Ozon's latest is a sun-drenched tale of lust and death, and another gem from one of today's great directors.
AFI DOCS 2021 [Festival Recap]
Here are three documentaries that stole the show at this year's AFI DOCS.
Tribeca Film Festival 2021: Dispatch Three
This third and final dispatch from Tribeca 2021 looks at a pair of fantastic biographies and a crowd pleasing sports documentary.
Tribeca Film Festival 2021: Dispatch Two
This second dispatch from Tribeca 2021 looks at an entrancing fiction film and a pair of one-of-a-kind documentaries.
Tribeca Film Festival 2021: Dispatch One
The first of three Tribeca dispatches looks at three of the festival's more talked about documentaries.