With jump cuts, fancy fades, and towels featuring cartoon owls and penguins, Amalia Ulman draws from her work as an artist and includes it seamlessly into the world of cinema.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

With jump cuts, fancy fades, and towels featuring cartoon owls and penguins, Amalia Ulman draws from her work as an artist and includes it seamlessly into the world of cinema.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

McQueen builds his scathing criticism of the 1970s British school system in layers. Resembling the 'beautiful spiral constellation of Andromeda' that set the little protagonist dreaming, the film returns to the diverging realities and tropes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

McQueen builds his scathing criticism of the 1970s British school system in layers. Resembling the 'beautiful spiral constellation of Andromeda' that set the little protagonist dreaming, the film returns to the diverging realities and tropes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Hansen-Løve's momentary excursions into animation, split screen, and possibly re-writing of world history are the most effective parts.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Hansen-Løve's momentary excursions into animation, split screen, and possibly re-writing of world history are the most effective parts.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Frédéric Tcheng's documentary about a house and its ghosts in past and present is all you could desire from a fashion film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Frédéric Tcheng's documentary about a house and its ghosts in past and present is all you could desire from a fashion film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film, co-written with Hélène Zimmer, functions like exquisite lacework with new patterns emerging at every turn.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film, co-written with Hélène Zimmer, functions like exquisite lacework with new patterns emerging at every turn.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A stagey, fast-food version of romance.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

A stagey, fast-food version of romance.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Rebollo, reinvents the Road Movie, just as Leos Carax does in Holy Motors.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Rebollo, reinvents the Road Movie, just as Leos Carax does in Holy Motors.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

After seeing three films in and around the small town of Dreileben, the landscape has become familiar and inescapable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

After seeing three films in and around the small town of Dreileben, the landscape has become familiar and inescapable.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The fantastic interrupts the profane.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The fantastic interrupts the profane.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Petzold exposes the social machinations behind the seemingly simple love stories.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Petzold exposes the social machinations behind the seemingly simple love stories.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Alexander Payne's latest, unclassifiable film gallivants with us through a number of different worlds that all seem familiar, yet perplexing.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Alexander Payne's latest, unclassifiable film gallivants with us through a number of different worlds that all seem familiar, yet perplexing.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Donkey Skin is right there at the crossroads, capturing a moment of change as well as the timeless nature of storytelling.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Donkey Skin is right there at the crossroads, capturing a moment of change as well as the timeless nature of storytelling.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We get to witness the birth of a new genre and are confronted with a violent American history that Hollywood fictions have previously not dared to tackle.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We get to witness the birth of a new genre and are confronted with a violent American history that Hollywood fictions have previously not dared to tackle.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

When the price of obedience is a life of lies where humiliation has no bounds, the pent-up desire explodes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

When the price of obedience is a life of lies where humiliation has no bounds, the pent-up desire explodes.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We are given time, which is wonderful, to count and study the painted ceiling fans and observe the hand-movements of the attentive music listeners.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We are given time, which is wonderful, to count and study the painted ceiling fans and observe the hand-movements of the attentive music listeners.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Martin Gschlacht’s glorious and smart cinematography adds clarity here while sprinkling doubt over there.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Martin Gschlacht’s glorious and smart cinematography adds clarity here while sprinkling doubt over there.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Evocative, wide-ranging, and evermore timely.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Evocative, wide-ranging, and evermore timely.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Payne's premise resembles a dare: How can I make you care for a person who looks and acts like this? He works the Disney device of love at first sight in reverse.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Payne's premise resembles a dare: How can I make you care for a person who looks and acts like this? He works the Disney device of love at first sight in reverse.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Desplechin eases us into the goings-on without sacrificing any of Roth’s complicated and thorny subject matter.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Desplechin eases us into the goings-on without sacrificing any of Roth’s complicated and thorny subject matter.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Keira Knightley... will be tough to beat at next year's Academy Awards for her portrayal of Spielrein

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Keira Knightley... will be tough to beat at next year's Academy Awards for her portrayal of Spielrein

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Zellner brothers...enter into a fascinating structural dialogue with the history of the genre.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The Zellner brothers...enter into a fascinating structural dialogue with the history of the genre.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We get to watch Lynch work on a sculpture, sit and smoke, or interact with his toddler daughter Lula in the present. Family photos and home movies light up the past.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

We get to watch Lynch work on a sculpture, sit and smoke, or interact with his toddler daughter Lula in the present. Family photos and home movies light up the past.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is the two world-famous guys Thompson tries to pin down like butterflies, as if she were a lepidopterist. They escape, of course, because their works are still alive.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is the two world-famous guys Thompson tries to pin down like butterflies, as if she were a lepidopterist. They escape, of course, because their works are still alive.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Sense of memory, sense of history, sense of time, envelop us like a high altitude fog.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Sense of memory, sense of history, sense of time, envelop us like a high altitude fog.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Be prepared for scenes you finish in your own head to haunt you.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Be prepared for scenes you finish in your own head to haunt you.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Certain Women is a film suffused in uncertainties.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Certain Women is a film suffused in uncertainties.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

"At the heart of the kingdom there is nothing," it says, but all the fascinating splendour that exists around that gap!

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

"At the heart of the kingdom there is nothing," it says, but all the fascinating splendour that exists around that gap!

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

How it feels to take credit for something you haven’t done is one of the questions Coup! invites us to contemplate.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

How it feels to take credit for something you haven’t done is one of the questions Coup! invites us to contemplate.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Vicky Krieps...is in excellent form and up to the task of presenting to us the icon in all her idiosyncrasies.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Vicky Krieps...is in excellent form and up to the task of presenting to us the icon in all her idiosyncrasies.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Captivating and informative.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Captivating and informative.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This evocation of Colette in 2018 knows that its heroine will always be larger than what is on screen.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

This evocation of Colette in 2018 knows that its heroine will always be larger than what is on screen.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Unlike many of his other films where there are underlying touches of humor, Polanski plays this one more as a straight comedy.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Unlike many of his other films where there are underlying touches of humor, Polanski plays this one more as a straight comedy.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The premise questions our storytelling conventions.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The premise questions our storytelling conventions.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

There is nothing charming left in this all-is-lost and boys-will-be-boys scenario when violence perpetuates itself and decency is nowhere to be found.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

There is nothing charming left in this all-is-lost and boys-will-be-boys scenario when violence perpetuates itself and decency is nowhere to be found.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

McCarthy plays this unlikable character deftly and with aplomb. And yet the story is stuck in the mud so deep that you can almost smell the decay.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

McCarthy plays this unlikable character deftly and with aplomb. And yet the story is stuck in the mud so deep that you can almost smell the decay.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The real-life clumsiness, the awkward pauses in human interactions are captured attentively; these are the most precise moments of the film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The real-life clumsiness, the awkward pauses in human interactions are captured attentively; these are the most precise moments of the film.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Most interestingly, the documentary takes us back in time to when Ruth Finley was hired as a girl Friday by the number-one fashion publicist, Eleonor Lambert, who was pivotal in getting American designers the recognition they deserved in the 1940s.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Most interestingly, the documentary takes us back in time to when Ruth Finley was hired as a girl Friday by the number-one fashion publicist, Eleonor Lambert, who was pivotal in getting American designers the recognition they deserved in the 1940s.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Self indulgent, nonsensical and soulless scenes are woven together into a sentimental fog that hovers above the surface of a faux world, past and present.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Self indulgent, nonsensical and soulless scenes are woven together into a sentimental fog that hovers above the surface of a faux world, past and present.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The people encountered while working as a cinematographer for different documentarians, shooting all over the globe, are woven into a fascinating, irregular net of meaning.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The people encountered while working as a cinematographer for different documentarians, shooting all over the globe, are woven into a fascinating, irregular net of meaning.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Neil Jordan skilfully examines the nature of time and the theme that he surveys like no other filmmaker - what it means to physically be in two places at once.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Neil Jordan skilfully examines the nature of time and the theme that he surveys like no other filmmaker - what it means to physically be in two places at once.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The oddities don't add up to anything and the love story between Adam and Helene is as predictable as it is sad.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The oddities don't add up to anything and the love story between Adam and Helene is as predictable as it is sad.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film exposes the unbearable weaknesses and stupidity of many adults in the community and school system who do nothing at best or make it even worse.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film exposes the unbearable weaknesses and stupidity of many adults in the community and school system who do nothing at best or make it even worse.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You cannot be certain if it is the performer, Rossi or yourself who has strayed from the path to discover a new world within the clutches of history.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

You cannot be certain if it is the performer, Rossi or yourself who has strayed from the path to discover a new world within the clutches of history.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Zellweger has impeccable comedic timing and the many small and big risks she takes with Bridget pay off.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Zellweger has impeccable comedic timing and the many small and big risks she takes with Bridget pay off.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

François Gédigier's inspired editing trusts that mismatched sounds and images form an emotional whole.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

François Gédigier's inspired editing trusts that mismatched sounds and images form an emotional whole.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Burton does not think he needs to make up his mind about the tone of the movie. It is like a child ordering an ice cream with five kinds of toppings.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Burton does not think he needs to make up his mind about the tone of the movie. It is like a child ordering an ice cream with five kinds of toppings.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

If the way Alina cries and hugs her friend hello, in between train tracks, does not trigger your empathy, you are possibly already dead.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

If the way Alina cries and hugs her friend hello, in between train tracks, does not trigger your empathy, you are possibly already dead.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -