The title of The Quiet Girl isn’t messing around: the girl, nine-year-old Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is certainly very quiet. So is everything else about the film, in fact: even the overbearing musical score by Stephen Rennicks is still very quiet and soft while it’s weighting the movie down. For his debut feature, adapted from the […]
A review requested by Mandy Albert, with thanks for supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is perhaps the cult exploitation film of the 2000s. By 2009, when Dutch edgelord auteur […]
Around the time that the Japanese animated feature Inu-oh premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, its director, Yuasa Masaaki, announced that he’d be taking a break of indeterminate length. Few people can claim to have better earned such a thing: after co-founding the animation studio Science SARU in 2013, Yuasa sank an absolutely […]
A review requested by Benjamin, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Rear Window is a film about the prurient voyeurism of watching movies. You know this. I know this. […]
There are both a good idea for a movie and a great idea for a movie tangled up right next to each other inside of Saint Omer, and it is one of the more disappointing developments of the young 2023 movie year (the film is technically a 2022 release in the U.S., but only in […]
The Whale, essentially, does not work – “does not work as a movie”, I am almost tempted to say, in deference to its origins as a well-received stage play by Samuel D. Hunter (adapting the work to a screenplay himself). But frankly, I suspect it’s not any great shakes onstage, either; the dialogue and characterisations […]
A review requested by Hoffnungshaftling, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Last Year at Marienbad is to the midcentury European art film as Singin in the Rain is to […]
The Woman King suffers from only one seriously unanswerable flaw, in my estimation, and it is unfortunately a pretty significant one given what the film is. Namely, its scenes of 19th Century warfare, using a mixture of guns, traditional African tribal weaponry, and what I greatly suspect are some weapons much too fanciful to be […]
