Rating: 4/4 Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Chang-dong Lee‘s Burning is South Korea’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language film. In a…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Burning:’ A Hauntingly Brilliant Mystery”

Rating: 2.5/4 For 3 weeks in 1988, during the Democratic Primary, Senator Gary Hart of Colorado was the front runner. Within a span of 5 days, he…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘The Front Runner:’ Almost a Clear Winner, But Falls Just Short”

Rating: 3.5/4 The biggest crossover event of 2018 isn’t Infinity War, it’s directors Phil Johnston and Rich Moore‘s Ralph Breaks the Internet: A film that mixes every property within the…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet:’ The Biggest Crossover of Existentialism and Toxic Masculinity Ever?”

Rating: 3/4 It was a Tuesday on September 11th at TIFF. Most of the heavy weights had screened or would screen, but one film would surprise us…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Green Book:’ A Relic of the 90’s”

Rating: 4/4 Filmed in the burned-out lots, in the gang littered asphalt streets, under the rumble of the El-track trains on Chicago’s South Side, exists Steve McQueen’s Widows,…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Widows:’ Steve McQueen Delivers a Racial, Political, and Feminist Masterpiece”

Rating: 4/4 Few major directors of recent memory have become as intimate with the Western as the Coen Brothers. Joel and Ethan Coen have made No Country for…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs:’ Is a Strange and Brilliant Ode to the West”

You’ve never heard of General Magic, the debunked Silicon Valley company at the center of directors Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude‘s documentary, but you’re using one of their…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: [DFF]: ‘General Magic’”

On 20 April, 1999, one of the deadliest school shootings in American history occurred. There had been other school massacres before Columbine, a high school nestled in…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: [DFF]: ‘We Are Columbine’”

Rating: 2/4 Sexuality isn’t a choice. To some, this statement is obvious, to others, profound, to others, deceitful. As one grows, as one accepts an attraction that…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Boy Erased:’ Is Emotionally Cold”

Rating: 2.5/4 The newest installment of the most famous story about witches and wizards is here. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald marks the second entry into…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:’ Rowling has Lost her Enchantment”