Credit to Mélanie Laurent, who is continuing her directing career with The Mad Women’s Ball, because she knows when she should hold back. What she’s saying isn’t…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Review: Gaslighting Is Institutional in Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball”

Many films are outright desperate to speak to our times, but Maria Schrader’s Berlin-set sci-fi romcom I’m Your Man could genuinely lay claim to that and more.…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Review: Dan Stevens Is an Android Dreamboat in I’m Your Man”

According to the filmmakers behind “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” many of us owe Wain (played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who’s intense even for him) a great…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”

“The Starling” is a movie with the sort of roles great comedic actors seem to feel a need to play every now and then, since apparently the…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: The Starling”

Alanis Morissette can’t seem to help but inspire, and “Jagged,” the documentary she’s since disowned, won’t have too many answers on just what makes such a truly…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Jagged”

Judging by his last two films, old age does not appear to be agreeing with Terence Davies, which both have far more in common than subject matter.…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Benediction”

For all Céline Sciamma’s massive talent and success, I imagine that her position in a post-Portrait of a Lady on Fire world isn’t always an enviable one.…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Review: Don’t Go Looking for the Fire in Céline Sciamma’s New Film Petite Maman”

It’s strange to imagine a world unfamiliar with Agnès Varda, but it was still in the process of getting to know her when she made the 1962…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: 52 Films By Women: Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)”

It would only be frustrating to recount exactly how many opportunities writer-director Lisa Joy (Westworld) throws away in her desperate effort to please in Warner Bros.’ latest,…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Sci-fi noir Reminiscence is best left forgotten”

2021 is the perfect time for a spiritual sequel to the 1992 horror slasher “Candyman,” a movie so frightening that not even sympathetic, well-meaning white women were…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ coughs up just another slasher flick”