Posts By Anton Bitel
VOD film review: Vivarium (2019)
March 27, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Lorcan Finnegan’s haunting domestic nightmare finds sci-fi angst at the bottom of suburban life.Read More
VOD film review: System Crasher
March 27, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Nora Fingscheidt’s energetic, thought-provoking drama celebrates and despairs its young heroine’s path of rebellion.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Room (2019)
March 21, 2020 | Anton Bitel
The trap of capitalism and Oedipal family relations collide in this creepy, Twilight Zone-esque fable.Read More
MUBI UK film review: Bacurau
March 13, 2020 | Anton Bitel
An engrossing action film and a political allegory, this distinctive Brazilian Western is a big, brassy genre showdown.Read More
VOD film review: The Colony (2013)
March 6, 2020 | Anton Bitel
This post-apocalyptic, perma-frosted horror outlines an endpoint for today’s human rapacity.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Madman (1982)
February 21, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Joe Giannone’s one and only feature hangs up some sophisticated ideas before going into slasher routine.Read More
VOD film review: Come to Daddy
February 21, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Genre producer extraordinaire Ant Timpson proves he can also direct in this extreme and darkly funny tale of fathers and sons.Read More
VOD film review: Monos (2019)
February 17, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Alejandro Landes’ guerrilla rites of passage offer a bleakly surreal child-soldier sensorium.
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VOD film review: Sisters (1972)
January 24, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Sisters aren’t doing it for themselves in Brian De Palma’s sophisticated thriller of male abuse and manipulation.Read More
VOD film review: Burning (2018)
January 8, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Lee Chang-dong’s masterful pantomime thriller explores treacherously ambiguous borderlands of class and gender.Read More
