The Past Lives hype that immediately saturated Sundance Twitter following its premiere in Park City was not fucking around. Since then it wowed SIFF audiences as the opening night feature and is now opening around the country, including here in Seattle.
Author: Josh
The Flash messes with multiverses
The main question you have to ask yourself when deciding if you’re going see this movie is “Does seeing Michael Keaton put on the ol’ Batsuit and once again speak aloud an ad-libbed catchphrase justify spending more than two hours with multiple versions of Ezra Miller and some pretty substandard CGI?”
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is exactly what meets the eye
Hasbro’s robots in disguise get a competent reboot in the latest iteration.
You Hurt My Feelings and the dangers of big little lies
Across three decades of directing and screenwriting Nicole Holofcener has long established herself as being incredibly good at making movies about grown ups with small problems that can also feel as big as the whole world.
SIFF 2023: artistic biopics Dreamin’ Wild & Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert
Dreamin’ Wild (2022 | USA | 110 min. | Bill Pohlad) Like Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson biopic, Love & Mercy, his retelling of what happened when …
SIFF 2023: the show’s the thing with Pianoforte and A Disturbance in the Force
Two documentaries about the performing arts: prodigious pianists and a spectacular failure of capitalism.
SIFF 2023: Adoptees find their places in Egghead & Twinkie and The Quiet Migration
Two stories of adoptees finding their places, screening as part of the Seattle International Film Festival.
SIFF 2023: Recommendations for the rest of the Festival
Picks for the second half of the Seattle International Film Festival, plus a rundown of the guests who will be in town to support their films.
SIFF 2023: teen angst with ANU and I Like Movies
Short reviews of SIFF films, both about kids having a tough time.
SIFF 2023: Meaningful vacations in The Eight Mountains and Chile ’76
Reviews from the Seattle International Film Festival.