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![The Tonal Difference between Peter Rabbit [2018] and Christopher Robin [2018]](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Untitled-768x308.png)
The difference in tone between both these reboots is stark, despite both originating from source materials that are warm, comforting, and, most likely for older audiences, nostalgic.
![Happy End [2017]: A Lackluster Drama with Sporadic Moments of Brilliance](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cover-768x461.jpg)
Austrian auteur Michael Haneke’s Happy End (2017), screened at the 70th edition of Cannes Film Festival, generated huge expectations. That’s…
![Mute [2018]: Voiceless. Soulless. Pointless.](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mute-768x432.jpg)
Mute [2018]: A Hell of a Boring Sci-Fi With Uninspired Setting & Bland Characters. Duncan Jones’ spiritual sequel to his…
![The Square [2017] – A Clever Commentary on the Pretentiousness of Human Nature and Modern Society](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/The-Square-cover-768x413.jpg)
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund has quickly emerged as one of contemporary world cinema’s most distinctive voices. As a wonderful satirist,…
![Magnolia [1999]: An exhaustively detailed & extensively refined study of the human condition](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/magnolia-768x432.jpg)
“I really feel… That Magnolia is, for better or worse, the best movie I’ll ever make.” — Paul Thomas Anderson…
![Black Panther [2018] : An Allegorical Representation of Afrofuturism](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Black-Panther-TChalla-768x405.jpg)
“Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining…
“Even in pleasure, there is some kind of pain, some self-loathing in the self-satisfaction.” If we leave aside our obstinate…
![Phantom Thread [2017]: A Perverse Fever Dream of Love](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Phantom-Thread-768x462.jpg)
“When I was a boy I started to hide things in the linings of the garments. Things that only I…
![On Body and Soul [2017] – A Whimsical Atypical Romance set in a Caustic Environment](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cover-768x412.jpg)
Hungarian film-maker Ildiko Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (‘Testrol es lelekrol’, 2017) opens with a stark-white image that’s slowly transformed…