Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: La Llorona (2019)
August 6, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Jayro Bustamante’s wonderful horror uses a Latin American folktale to show a nation haunted by its past.Read More
VOD film review: Alice (2019)
July 25, 2020 | Anton Bitel
A mistreated mother rediscovers herself through the oldest profession in Josephine Mackerras’ strong feature debut.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Impetigore (Perempuan Tanah Jahanam)
July 23, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Joko Anwar’s macabre melodrama finds a young woman and her old haunts cursed by historic sin.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Pool (2018)
July 21, 2020 | Anton Bitel
A fun, fraught, knowingly farcical fish-out-of-water survival thriller.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Beach House
July 9, 2020 | Anton Bitel
A seaside holiday sinks into Lovecraftian apocalypse in this assured directorial debut filled with dread.Read More
Edinburgh Film Festival review: Fanny Lye Deliver’d
June 24, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Thomas Clay’s third feature offers an English history of patriarchy, hypocrisy and oppression – and the first fruits of female resistance.Read More
Parasite review: A thrilling tale of class division
June 1, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Bong Joon-ho’s thrilling tale of families divided by class is impeccably mounted, deftly switching from one genre to another.Read More
VOD film review: The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
May 31, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Fame, family and the fall collide in Makoto Tezuka’s whimsical, madcap 80s musical.Read More
VOD film review: Only the Animals (Seules Les Bêtes)
May 30, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Dominik Moll brings together tales of crossed purposes, animal drives and amour fou in this superbly performed ensemble drama.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Tenebrae
May 22, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Dario Argento’s return to giallo is a sophisticated staging of both the genre and his part in it as atrocity artist.Read More
