Everything Is Cinema [2021] Review: An Inspiringly Fleshed-Out Docufiction That Hits Strangely Affecting Notes
Everything Is Cinema (2021) has a deceptively simple plot. Chris is a young filmmaker who set out to film Calcutta with…
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![A Balance [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A searing take on Japan’s Culture of Shaming](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/A-Balance-NYAFF-review-2021-768x432.jpeg)
A Balance [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ Review – A searing take on Japan’s Culture of Shaming
In Yujiro Harumoto’s intense, and slightly overlong A Balance (premiered at Berlin Film Festival 2021), a documentary director Yuko (a fine…
![The Balcony Movie [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – Perceiving the Rhythmic Flow of Life from a Everyday Space](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-Balcony-Movie-2021-768x431.jpg)
The Balcony Movie [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – Perceiving the Rhythmic Flow of Life from a Everyday Space
Pawel Lozinski’s captivating documentary, The Balcony Movie (Film Balkonowy, 2021) comes across as an interesting artistic experiment to watch in…
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Sweat [2021] Review – A haunting albeit unfocused exploration of the perils of social media fame
Social media influencers are hard workers. As much as I judge them for creating an online presence that seems to…
![Aya [2021]: ‘Cannes’ Review – A Gentle Coming-of-Age film about Being A Woman and loving your Roots](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AYA-coconut.jpg)
Aya [2021]: ‘Cannes’ Review – A Gentle Coming-of-Age film about Being A Woman and loving your Roots
Films about coming-of-age are instantly appealing to me. This is a phase of life that is drenched in receptive timelessness….
The 15 Best Indian Movies of 2015
Indian cinema has been experimenting a lot in recent years and has been quite successful by far. New actors and…
10 Essential Filipino Movies of the decade (2010s)
A new generation of Filipino filmmakers are re-establishing the relationship between movies and society by utilizing the expansion of materials…
Sherni (2021) Review: A Muted Vidya Balan Roar
Amazon Prime dropped its much-awaited release Sherni (2021), starring Vidya Balan, on the 18th of June, and ever since the…
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I Carry You With Me [2021] Review: A familiar queer love story that cleverly merges into a docu-fictional narrative
The greatest asset of Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Heidi Ewing’s “I Carry You With Me” has to be how cleverly and…